Sights in Nancy
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Musée Lorrain
Once home to the dukes of Lorraine, the regal Renaissance Palais Ducal now shelters the Musée Lorrain. The rich fine arts & history collection spotlights medieval statuary, engravings and lustrous faience (glazed pottery). The regional art & folklore collection occupies a 15th-century former Franciscan monastery. Inside, the Gothic Église des Cordeliers and the 17th-century Chapelle Ducale, modelled on the Medici Chapel in Florence, served as the burial place of the dukes of Lorraine.
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Musée de l'École de Nancy
A highlight of a visit to Nancy, the Musée de l'École de Nancy brings together an exquisite collection of art nouveau interiors, curvaceous glass and landscaped gardens. It's housed in a 19th-century villa about 2km southwest of the centre; to get there take bus 122 or 123 to the Nancy Thermal or Paul-Painlevé stop.
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Musée des Beaux-Arts
Daum-made art nouveau glass and a rich selection of paintings from the 14th to 21st centuries are among the star exhibits at this outstanding museum. Caravaggio, Rubens, Picasso and Monet masterpieces hang alongside works by Lorraine-born artists, such as Claude Lorrain's dreamlike baroque landscapes.
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Cathédrale
The interior of the domed, 18th-century cathédrale is a sombre mixture of neoclassical and baroque. The organ loft and the ironwork, by Jean Lamour and his students, are from the end of the 1750s.
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Bronze Sculpture
Just south of the train station is a bizarre bronze sculpture, a square column with a pile of – no, it can't be! – on top. Clues about its meaning can be found on the nearby brass plaques.
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Maison Huot
North of the Vieille Ville, art-nouveau town houses include Maison Weissenburger , built in 1904, and Maison Huot , constructed a year earlier.
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Maison Weissenburger
North of the Vieille Ville, art-nouveau town houses include Maison Weissenburger , built in 1904, and Maison Huot , constructed a year earlier.
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Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-l'Annonciation
Crowned by a frescoed dome, Nancy's 18th-century cathedral is a sombre mixture of neoclassical and baroque.
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Villa Majorelle
Close to the Musée de l’École de Nancy lies the whimsical Villa Majorelle, built by Henri Sauvage in 1901 and bearing the hallmark of Majorelle (furniture) and Gruber (stained glass). The centrepiece is Les Blés dining room with its vinelike stone fireplace.
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Vieille Ville
A saunter through the charming old town takes in the silver-turreted, 14th-century Porte de la Craffe, Nancy's oldest city gate, and place St-Epvre, dominated by ornate neo-Gothic Basilique St-Epvre.
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Place Stanislas
Laid out in the 1750s, this neoclassical square is one of France's grandest public spaces and a Unesco World Heritage Site. Designed by Emmanuel Héré, it was named after the enlightened, Polish-born Duke of Lorraine who commissioned it, and whose statue stands in the middle. Your gaze will be drawn to a cluster of opulent buildings, including the hôtel de ville and the sublime Opéra National de Lorraine, as well as gilded wrought-iron gateways by Jean Lamour and rococo fountains by Guibal.
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Place de l'Alliance
A block to the east of place Stanislas, this lime-tree-fringed square, also World Heritage material, is graced by a baroque fountain by Bruges-born Louis Cyfflé (1724–1806), inspired by Bernini's Four Rivers fountain in Rome's Piazza Navona.
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Place de la Carrière
Adjoining place Stanislas – on the other side of Nancy's own Arc de Triomphe, built in the mid-1750s to honour Louis XV – is this quiet square. Once a riding and jousting arena, it is now graced by four rows of linden trees and stately rococo gates in gilded wrought iron.
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Parc de la Pépinière
On a hot summer's day, escape the crowds in this formal garden, with ornamental fountains, a rose garden and a Rodin sculpture of baroque landscape painter Claude Lorrain.
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