Arrival town
 Terrasses Place Stanislas (Photo Ville de Nancy) Nancy
Nancy, a town with 105,000 residents, is the central town of "Grand Nancy", the 5th largest urban group in France, numbering some 270,000 residents in 20 towns.
Its rich cultural and architectural heritage makes it a town with many levels: medieval, renaissance, baroque, and art nouveau, with a firm footing in the twenty-first century.
The former King of Poland, Stanislas Leszczynski became Duke of Lorraine and gave Nancy a wonderful gift of Baroque inspiration, which gained the town world-wide acclaim. He ordered the construction of the Place with golden gates, which is classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and which bears his name to this very day.
It is an artistic town, and at the end of the nineteenth century it gave its name to an art nouveau movement, giving France her first modern Decorative Arts movement and a new architectural style.
www.mairie-nancy.fr
www.grand-nancy.org
HISTORY : The finishes at Nancy
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