Have you made up your mind about your destination? Translated by Alison Isherwood β 5 years ago. Original text by Francesco Giuggioli. Whenever people hear about this for the first time, they often ask me, "why Nantes? Nevertheless, Nantes turned out to be a very pleasant city, despite me having gone in the winter term. It is an extremely quiet town that lies along the course of the Loire , which lives in contact with the river.
Not only that, Nantes is a university city , very young, that has the main student centre in Audencia, in the northern part of the city. This large island in the middle of the Loire constitutes an area of Nantes that is under great urban transformation. The whole western part is a large construction site of contemporary buildings, some already finished and overlooking a long riverfront promenade with a bar and green that fills up on Friday and Saturday evenings, and also on Sunday afternoons.
You can climb the big elephant , a symbol of Nantes that walks, trumpets and sprays jets of water, or spits fire on the dragon! The spaces around the machines are filled with lawns, bars and are immediately visible from afar, thanks to the Carrousel des Mondes Marins, the carousel of marine machines for all children!
In the city there are many other places to spend an evening with friends such as the Quartier du Bouffay, which is between Place de Commerce, the central square of Nantes, and the Castle of the Dukes of Brittany, and is an area full of welcoming and picturesque places to drink a blanche beer or a glass of wine.
The factory has been transformed into a bookstore-museum-bar-club, a meeting place for all students in Nantes, very original and fun as a place that people call " Le Lieu Unique ". Where to live? The Auberge is simply the hostel where I met a lot of people looking for a house like I was. Fortune had it that the ENSAN's very helpful secretary provided me with a small apartment studio in the Longchamp student residences , north of the centre of the city but reachable thanks to the Blue Line on the tram.
