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Nantes had 320,732 inhabitants in 2020, the largest population in its history. [154] Although it was the largest city in Brittany during the Middle Ages , it was smaller than three other north-western towns: Angers , Tours and Caen . [ 155 ]
445 CE - Nantes besieged by Huns. [2] 453 - Desiderius becomes Roman Catholic Bishop of Nantes . [3] 548 - Félix of Nantes becomes Catholic bishop. [3] 843-936 - The Normans held the town. [4] 992 - Nantes taken by forces of the Duke of Brittany. [2] 1118 - Fire. [2] 1207 - Château des ducs de Bretagne constructed, a large castle in Nantes. [4]
In the mid-ninth century, the county finally fell to the Bretons and the title became a subsidiary title of the Breton rulers. The control of the title by the Breton dukes figured prominently in the history of the duchy. The County of Nantes was given to Hoel, a disinherited son of a duke. He lost the countship due to a popular uprising.
Starting in the 1990s, the town of Nantes undertook a massive programme of restoration and repairs to return the site to its former glory as an emblem of the history of Nantes and Brittany. Following 15 years of works and three years of closure to the public, it was reopened on 9 February 2007, and is now a popular tourist attraction.
Pays de la Loire (French pronunciation: [pe.i d(ə) la lwaʁ]; lit. ' Lands of the Loire ') is one of the eighteen regions of France, located on the country's Atlantic coast. It was created in the 1950s to serve as a zone of influence for its capital and most populated city, Nantes, one of a handful of French "balancing metropolises" (métropoles d'équilibre).
Nantes was the foremost port for the Irish trading fleet. Out of sixty Jacobite company headquarters and trading houses in Europe in the mid-18th century, two thirds were based in four ports: 12 in Nantes , 9 in Bordeaux , 8 in Cadiz and a dozen in Stockholm and Gothenburg (although these were essentially branch offices).
The Machines of the Isle of Nantes (French: Les Machines de l'île) is an artistic, touristic and cultural project based in Nantes, France.The project is based in the old covered buildings of the former shipyards in Nantes that were at one time used for ship construction (les nefs), and later used as business sites.
Nantes Cathedral, or the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul of Nantes (French: Cathédrale Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul de Nantes), is a Roman Catholic Gothic cathedral located in Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France. Construction began in 1434, on the site of a Romanesque cathedral, and took 457 years to finish in 1891.