Itinerary · Pays de la Loire

Nantes and Angers for Two: 4 Days Between Loire and Estuary

From the Château des ducs de Bretagne to the Apocalypse Tapestry, a romantic itinerary tracing the Loire between Nantes and Angers — museums, cathedrals and castles, without rushing from one stop to the next.

4 days · 7 stops · Romantic

Overview

Numbers follow the order of the route, day by day — the dashed line is indicative, not a precise driving route.

Day 1

Medieval Nantes, castle and cathedral

The Château des ducs de Bretagne, where François II and then his daughter Anne of Brittany reigned before Brittany's union with France, opens the walk — five minutes away on foot, the Cathédrale Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul holds the Renaissance tomb Anne commissioned for her parents, a masterpiece in black and white marble.

Cradle of the Breton dukes

Castle · Nantes

Musée du château des ducs de Bretagne

The museum of the castle of the Dukes of Brittany, located in the heart of the medieval district of Nantes, occupies a castle built at the end of the 15th…

⏱ 2h

Anne of Brittany's flamboyant tomb

Church · Nantes

Cathédrale Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul de Nantes

Cathédrale Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul de Nantes, édifice de style gothique flamboyant situé en Loire-Atlantique, dans le centre-ville de Nantes. Lieu de culte…

⏱ 45 min

Day 2

The Nantes Museum of Arts, nine centuries under one roof

A whole day for a single place: three buildings — the 19th-century Palais, the Chapelle de l'Oratoire and the contemporary Cube — linked by one continuous thread, from the Middle Ages to today's art, to wander together without watching the clock.

Nine centuries of art

Museum · Nantes

Musée d’arts de Nantes

The Nantes Museum of Fine Arts is located in Nantes in Loire-Atlantique. It presents nine centuries of visual arts, from the Middle Ages to the contemporary…

⏱ 2h30

Day 3

Angers, the fortress and the Apocalypse

The Château d'Angers, with its seventeen schist towers, holds the Apocalypse Tapestry, the largest surviving medieval tapestry in the world — then, a short walk away, the Cathédrale Saint-Maurice and its 12th-century sculpted portal, ten years in restoration.

The Apocalypse Tapestry

Castle · Angers

Château d'Angers

Le château d'Angers est une forteresse médiévale implantée dans la ville d'Angers, en Maine-et-Loire. Domaine national, il constitue une fortification majeure…

⏱ 2h

12th-century sculpted portal

Church · Angers

Cathédrale Saint-Maurice d'Angers

Cathédrale Saint-Maurice d'Angers, siège du diocèse d'Angers en Maine-et-Loire, représente un témoignage majeur de l'art gothique angevin. Édifiée…

⏱ 45 min

Day 4

Angers, the thread of tapestry

The Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Angers rounds out the city's collections, rich with 50,000 works — then the Musée Jean-Lurçat, where medieval tapestry finds a contemporary echo in Le Chant du Monde, woven in the 20th century in response to the Apocalypse.

Angers' 50,000-piece collection

Museum · Angers

Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Angers

The Museum of Fine Arts in Angers, officially named the Museum of Fine Arts and David-d'Angers Gallery, is an establishment. Located in Angers in…

⏱ 1h45

Tapestry, reimagined

Museum · Angers

Musée Jean-Lurçat et de la tapisserie contemporaine

The Jean-Lurçat and Contemporary Tapestry Museum is an Angers institution dedicated to contemporary tapestry. Located in Angers in Maine-et-Loire, it is part…

⏱ 1h15

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