Nantes

The confluence of the Erdre and the Loire (where Nantes was founded) in an 1890s photochrom. The river channels in the picture were diverted and filled in during the 1920s and subsequently replaced with roads.

Section of the Roman city wall

Nantes Cathedral, rebuilt in the Gothic style beginning in the 15th century

Cours Cambronne, a terrace developed at the end of the 18th century

The port of Nantes in 1912, with the demolished transporter bridge in the distance

Central Nantes in the first half of the 20th century. Waterways filled in from 1926 to 1946 are in brown, and buildings destroyed by American air raids in 1943 are in red.

Nantes as seen by SPOT in 2004