Hva som skjer i Nantes, France gjennom året

Rolig — reisende beskriver det som rolig, Le Voyage en hiver

• Festival

  La Folle Journee

  25. jan – 2. feb · vanligvisMusikkfestivalBestill tidlig

  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. Kilde ↗

Fortsatt på gang: Le Voyage en hiver (28. nov – 3. jan (vanligvis))

Travelt — Winter (February) holidays i France, skoleferie i 2 av markedene som fyller stedet

• Natur

  Camellias at the Jardin des Plantes

  15. feb – 25. mar · vanligvisVillblomster og blomstring

  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. Kilde ↗

Fortsatt på gang: La Folle Journee (25. jan – 2. feb (vanligvis))

Toppsesong — Carnaval de Nantes, Winter (February) holidays i France

• Festival

  Carnaval de Nantes

  20. mar – 20. apr · vanligvisKarnevalMye folk

  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. Kilde ↗

Fortsatt på gang: Camellias at the Jardin des Plantes (15. feb – 25. mar (vanligvis))

Toppsesong — Carnaval de Nantes, Spring holidays i France

• Festival

  Marathon de Nantes

  15.–30. apr · vanligvisSportsarrangement

  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. Kilde ↗

Fortsatt på gang: Carnaval de Nantes (20. mar – 20. apr (vanligvis))

Toppsesong — May holidays and ponts, Spring holidays i France

• Helligdag

  May holidays and ponts

  1.–25. maiNasjonaldagMye folkBestill tidligStengninger

  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. Kilde ↗

Travelt — Hellfest weekend, skoleferie i 4 av markedene som fyller stedet

• Festival

  Hellfest weekend

  17.–22. jun · vanligvisMusikkfestivalMye folkBestill tidlig

  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. Kilde ↗

Fortsatt på gang: May holidays and ponts (1.–25. mai)

Toppsesong — Bastille Day (14 juillet), Summer holidays i France

• Festival

  Le Voyage a Nantes

  4. jul – 6. sepSommersesongen åpner

  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. Kilde ↗

• Helligdag

  Bastille Day (14 juillet)

  13.–14. julNasjonaldagMye folkStengninger

  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. Kilde ↗

Travelt — Summer holidays i France, skoleferie i 6 av markedene som fyller stedet

Ingenting nytt starter i august.

Fortsatt på gang: Le Voyage a Nantes (4. jul – 6. sep)

Skuldersesong — skoleferie i 3 av markedene som fyller stedet, en helt vanlig måned

• Sesong

  Muscadet harvest

  1. sep – 10. okt · vanligvis

  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.

Fortsatt på gang: Le Voyage a Nantes (4. jul – 6. sep)

Travelt — All Saints (autumn) holidays i France, skoleferie i 3 av markedene som fyller stedet

Ingenting nytt starter i oktober.

Fortsatt på gang: Muscadet harvest (1. sep – 10. okt (vanligvis))

Toppsesong — Le Voyage en hiver, All Saints (autumn) holidays i France

• Festival

  Le Voyage en hiver

  28. nov – 3. jan · vanligvisJul og nyttårMye folk

  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. Kilde ↗

Toppsesong — Le Voyage en hiver, Christmas holidays i France

Ingenting nytt starter i desember.

Fortsatt på gang: Le Voyage en hiver (28. nov – 3. jan (vanligvis))