Voyage à Nantes

Each year since 2012, for the months of July and August, the Voyage à Nantes event hosts a number of cultural activities, mostly free of charge.

[1] All over the city of Nantes, a route with around 50 locations is marked by a green line painted on the ground which allows visitors to discover original, contemporary artworks alongside heritage sites, architecture and numerous viewpoints of the town[2] and parts of Estuaire, an open-air art collection along the banks of the Loire river and the Saint-Nazaire coast.

[4] In 2011, Nantes Metropolis (presided over at the time by Jean-Marc Ayrault) brought together the Office of Tourism, the Château des ducs de Bretagne (which includes the Nantes local history museum), les Machines de l'île and the existing Estuaire Nantes-Saint-Nazaire biennial to form a new brand called Voyage en France.

[6] Since its creation, the organisation has been based at 1 Rue Crucy in a former warehouse of the LU biscuit factory, designed by architect Auguste Bluysen.

[8] In October 2012, Chataigner directed the short film Estuaire showing 28 works of art located on the estuary from Nantes to Saint-Nazaire, featuring singer Julien Doré in the lead role.