Qué hay en Nantes, Francia, a lo largo del año

Tranquilo — los viajeros lo describen como tranquilo, Le Voyage en hiver

• Festival

  La Folle Journee

  25 Ene – 2 Feb · normalmenteFestival de músicaReserva pronto

  Five days of short classical concerts stacked from morning to midnight in the Cite des Congres, cheap and deliberately unstuffy. It is the one reason to be here in January and the halls sell out. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Le Voyage en hiver (28 Nov – 3 Ene (normalmente))

Concurrido — Winter (February) holidays en Francia, vacaciones escolares en 2 de los mercados que lo llenan

• Naturaleza

  Camellias at the Jardin des Plantes

  15 Feb – 25 Mar · normalmenteFlores silvestres

  The garden next to the station holds one of France's largest camellia collections, around six hundred varieties, usually at its best in the first half of March after a mild winter. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: La Folle Journee (25 Ene – 2 Feb (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — Carnaval de Nantes, Winter (February) holidays en Francia

• Festival

  Carnaval de Nantes

  20 Mar – 20 Abr · normalmenteCarnavalMucha gente

  Giant floats built by volunteers over the winter parade through the city centre from Place Foch on a spring Sunday afternoon, with a separate night parade a couple of weeks later. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Camellias at the Jardin des Plantes (15 Feb – 25 Mar (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — Carnaval de Nantes, Spring holidays en Francia

• Festival

  Marathon de Nantes

  15–30 Abr · normalmenteEvento deportivo

  A late-April running weekend: a 10 km night race from the Machines de l'Ile on the Saturday, then the marathon and half on Sunday, with road closures along the Loire. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Carnaval de Nantes (20 Mar – 20 Abr (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — May holidays and ponts, Spring holidays en Francia

• Festivo

  May holidays and ponts

  1–25 MayFiesta nacionalMucha genteReserva prontoCierres

  1 May, 8 May, Ascension Thursday and Whit Monday are public holidays, and the French bridge the gaps with a day off, the pont. Expect four-day weekends of busy trains, jammed roads and full rooms in towns that draw visitors, and near-total closures on 1 May. Fuente ↗

Concurrido — Hellfest weekend, vacaciones escolares en 4 de los mercados que lo llenan

• Festival

  Hellfest weekend

  17–22 Jun · normalmenteFestival de músicaMucha genteReserva pronto

  The metal festival is at Clisson, forty minutes south, but the rooms it fills are in Nantes and the trains out are standing room. Book anywhere in the city early for the third weekend of June. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: May holidays and ponts (1–25 May)

Máxima afluencia — Bastille Day (14 juillet), Summer holidays en Francia

• Festival

  Le Voyage a Nantes

  4 Jul – 6 SepApertura de verano

  A green line painted on the pavement links a couple of dozen commissioned works across the city for the summer, most of them free and outdoors. The art changes every year; the line does not. Fuente ↗

• Festivo

  Bastille Day (14 juillet)

  13–14 JulFiesta nacionalMucha genteCierres

  14 July is the national holiday: towns hold fireworks on the evening of the 13th or 14th, often with a firemen's ball, a parade or a concert, and banks, offices and many shops close for the day. Fuente ↗

Concurrido — Summer holidays en Francia, vacaciones escolares en 6 de los mercados que lo llenan

En agosto no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Le Voyage a Nantes (4 Jul – 6 Sep)

Temporada media — vacaciones escolares en 3 de los mercados que lo llenan, un mes normal

• Temporada

  Muscadet harvest

  1 Sep – 10 Oct · normalmente

  The vineyards start where the tram ends, and picking runs through September in the villages around Clisson and Vallet. Growers pour in the cellar rather than the tasting room while it lasts.

Sigue en marcha: Le Voyage a Nantes (4 Jul – 6 Sep)

Concurrido — All Saints (autumn) holidays en Francia, vacaciones escolares en 3 de los mercados que lo llenan

En octubre no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Muscadet harvest (1 Sep – 10 Oct (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — Le Voyage en hiver, All Saints (autumn) holidays en Francia

• Festival

  Le Voyage en hiver

  28 Nov – 3 Ene · normalmenteNavidad y Año NuevoMucha gente

  The summer art trail gets a winter version: light works through the centre, a market on the Place Royale and the machines on the island running in the dark. The wet cold here is the real one. Fuente ↗

Máxima afluencia — Le Voyage en hiver, Christmas holidays en Francia

En diciembre no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Le Voyage en hiver (28 Nov – 3 Ene (normalmente))