WHAT TO SEE
• Follow the Green Line itinerary featuring art installations, exhibitions and playgrounds
• Discover art installations along the Estuaire Nantes-Saint-Nazaire trail from Nantes to the Loire Estuary
• The 18th Century Jardin des Plantes botanical garden boasting art works by Claude Ponti and Jean Jullien. .
• The Voyage à Nantes summer event in July and August
• Stroll in the Passage Pommeraye, a unique 19th Century shopping arcade
WHAT TO DO
• Follow the Green Line 10km itinerary featuring art installations, exhibitions and playgrounds
• Discover 30 art installations along the Estuaire Nantes-Saint-Nazaire trail from Nantes to the Loire Estuary
• The 18th Century Jardin des Plantes botanical garden boasting art works by Claude Ponti
• The Voyage à Nantes summer event in July and August
• Stroll in the Passage Pommeraye, a unique 19th Century shopping arcade
WHAT TO TASTE
• White Muscadet wine from the Loire vineyards
• Exotically flavoured Gâteau Nantais, combining sugar, almonds, butter and Caribbean rum
• La Fraiseraie ice creams from nearby Pornic
• Berlingots Nantais, boiled sweets from Debotté shops
• Delicious oysters from the region
WHAT TO BRING BACK
• Salted butter toffee made with the salt of the famous Guérande marshes
• Famous Debotté chocolates
• Macarons Guerlais, the best in Nantes
• Curé Nantais cheese refined with Muscadet wine
• Rigolettes Nantaises boiled sweets with tangy soft fruit centres
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