Nantes recreates the monsters dreamed up by Jules Verne

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Nantes recreates the monsters dreamed up by Jules Verne - In France, a former shipyards of Nantes, another emblem of the French Industrial, a huge elephant of 12 meters along the coast of the Loire River, from a renovated port dependencies huge sea monsters looming in the background we can see a huge hanging gardens . These mechanical structures seem outputs of a book by Jules Verne, Nantes illustrious son of inspiration and driving force of the Machines de l'Ile is a very original cultural space extending the tourist attractions of this placid town gala. readmore Tourism in Marseille, France


After the construction of large modern port in Saint Nazaire, the glorious era that was in port at the heart of the triangular trade between mainland France, Africa and the Caribbean. Crane left only Titan cultural Heritage site, so striking with their intense yellow color of the Isle of Nantes, where the ships leaving and entering overseas that fueled the first child of Jules Verne fantasy.

Tubieron that give life to this port and to appeal to artists and Pierre Orefice François Delarozière recognized by the French street theater company that falls in the Royal de Luxe, on death row since 2007 an entire bestiary was born mechanic, whose star is a great pachyderm groaning, roaring jets of water and loose while carrying up to 45 passengers on board. Have also been built and some of the whales, and manta ray fish or pirate, who were among the large carousel of 25 meters and 20 meters in diameter that is scheduled to open in the winter of 2011-12.

Nantes The historic port is being transformed into an amusement park in the urban fabric and the public's interaction with the monumental mechanical sculptures. It has also enabled a former hangar at nightlife area with bars, clubs and restaurants. However, the most ambitious project is the fabrication of the Heron Tree, is a mega steel structure of 45 m. in diameter and 28 m. height where they will be amazing hanging gardens with plants from around the world. In anticipation, one of the ships of the Machine Gallery has built a huge branches of the tree where visitors can climb after observing, from a bay, the work of the craftsmen who made the machines.
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