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The conference itself attracted over people across four days of activities. And plenty of people have reported on their observations via social media, e. There is a tradition at Velo-City conferences of a big bike parade around the city, and Nantes was no exception. All the locals are invited to join in and so we ended up with perhaps people depending on who you talked to taking part in the minute ride around some of the sights of the city. A lot of fun! Away from the conference, I also took the chance to have a good look at what Nantes is doing for cycling I should say that it is also producing some fabulous public transport infrastructure. In a fairly short period of time, Nantes has aggressively worked on improving its cycling provision e. It has rolled out a number of interesting things, including:.

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The city is the sixth largest in France , with a population of , in the proper Nantes and a metropolitan area of nearly 1 million inhabitants It is the administrative seat of the Loire-Atlantique department and the Pays de la Loire region , one of 18 regions of France. Nantes belongs historically and culturally to Brittany , a former duchy and province , and its omission from the modern administrative region of Brittany is controversial. Nantes was identified during classical antiquity as a port on the Loire. It was the seat of a bishopric at the end of the Roman era before it was conquered by the Bretons in Although Nantes was the primary residence of the 15th-century dukes of Brittany , Rennes became the provincial capital after the union of Brittany and France.

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Nantes, France

Nantes is the fifth largest city in France with a population of , — the largest it has ever been. It is 50km inland from the Atlantic like some other important port cities eg. Bordeaux, Bilbao, Antwerp , sitting at the confluence of two Loire tributaries and where river current and sea-tides cancel each other out. The silting this caused led to the formation of the many islands upon which Nantes was originally built. It has been an important port city since antiquity, and, that said, its relatively peripheral location and mercantile history has meant it has always been outward-looking.

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