Loire-Atlantique: what to see and do
37 sites listed in the département. Around Nantes, a lively art city, the Loire-Atlantique combines a reinvented industrial estuary, a popular Atlantic coast with resorts such as La Baule, and the salt marshes of Guérande. This mix of city, ocean and nature makes it a complete destination on the doorstep of Brittany.
Château des ducs de Bretagne
From Charles VIII to Louis XIV, many kings of France stayed at the castle. In the chapel, Louis XII married Anne of Brittany in 1499.
Nantes
Former capital of the Dukes of Brittany on the Loire, reinvented around its industrial island and its neoclassical Passage Pommeraye.
La Baule
A chic seaside resort with one of the most beautiful bays in Europe, whose eight kilometres of fine sand border a pine-lined promenade.
Legendia Parc
Legendia Parc, based in Frossay, in Loire-Atlantique, is a park with a theme unique in France: tales and legends.
Aquabaule
Château de Blain (De la Groulaie)
Château de Bois-Briand
Château de Careil
Château de Chassay
Château de Châteaubriant
Château de Clermont
Château de Clisson
Surrounded by a double moat and fortified walls overlooking the Sèvre, the medieval château de Clisson was raised in the fourteenth century for its eastern part.
Château de Goulaine
Château de Lucinière
Château de Pornic
Château de Ranrouet
Château de l'Oiselinière
Château de la Bretesche
Château de la Motte-Glain
Château de la Seilleraye
Escal'Atlantic
Espace zoologique de La Boissière-du-Doré
Grotte des Korrigans
Guérande
Jardin des plantes de Nantes
Le Pallet Musée du Vignoble Nantais
Les Machines de l'île
Les Machines de l'île are an exhibition and entertainment space created by François Delarozière and Pierre Orefice; it is on the Île de Nantes, in France, on the site of former disused shipyards.
Marais de Goulaine
Spread over all the former lands of the lordship of Goulaine, the marsh is now divided between Haute-Goulaine and Basse-Goulaine, Saint-Julien-de-Concelles, Le Loroux-Bottereau and La Chapelle-Heulin.
Musée Jules Verne
Musée d'Arts de Nantes
The museum's collection, rich in more than 12,000 works, extends from ancient art to contemporary art, all forms of creation included.
Musée départemental Thomas-Dobrée
In an astonishing neo-Romanesque palace built by the architect Viollet-le-Duc, discover the treasures of Thomas Dobrée, a shipowner's son and fabulous collector: Greek and Etruscan ceramics, Egyptology section, regional civilisation.
Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Nantes
Mémorial de l'abolition de l'esclavage
The Memorial to the Abolition of Slavery is a French memorial in Nantes, in the Loire-Atlantique.
Océarium du Croisic
In a space entirely devoted to the ocean, the Océarium invites you to contemplate over more than 2,000 m² the fabulous spectacle of underwater life.
Parc d'attractions des Naudières
Planete Sauvage
