Nantes, France

Found in the Western part of France is a city called Nantes and if you’re traveling in this area you may want to look into renting a car hire to help transport you from place to place. The city is near the Atlantic coast has around 711,120 people living in the metropolitan area. Nantes is known as one of the more peaceful and pleasurable places to live in France.

If you’re into astronomy there is a local planetarium that has educational and entertaining shows about the night stars. If you like sports the local football team is FC Nantes Atlantique and there home colours are green and yellow. If you’d like to do a little shopping the Passage Pommeraye is a small shopping mall in central Nantes. Any of these places will provide you with a fun filled day as long as you have a way of getting to them.

The Planetarium explores astronomy and the night sky. The large screen dome presents the solar system and other celestial objects that make you feel like you are actually experiencing the scene first hand due to the high tech projectors and lasers. The Planetarium would be a great place to take the whole family.

The Nantes football team is FC Nantes Atlantique with the yellow and green home colours they will soon play in Ligue 2 in the 2007-2008 season. The team reached the semi-finals of European Champions League in 1996 as well, but did not succeed in making it any further. The Passage Pommeraye is a small shopping centre in central Nantes. In the year of 1840 the building was started to be built and was finished in July of 1843.

The mall is two floors with a renaissance style and was classified as a historic monument in 1976. The mall is a beautiful styled building and has a variety of shops to choose from. Whatever you like to do on your vacation is up to you but you should definitely make sure you have a reliable source of transportation to get where you want to go. You may want to look into a car rental for your next stay in the wonderful town of Nantes.