Overview

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The Machines of the Isle of Nantes (Les Machines de l'île) is an artistic, touristic and cultural project based in Nantes, France. In the old covered buildings of the former shipyards in Nantes that were at one time used for ship construction, and later used as business sites, the Machines of the Isle are created by two artists, François Delarozière (of La Machine production company) and Pierre Orefice (of Manaus association). The projects aim to promote the city's image and tries to build an identity as a creative metropolis of dream and of fantasy. The site is open to the public 1 July 2007.

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Fees: Tickets are available for the machine gallery, the elephant ride, and the carrousels.

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Links: http://www.lesmachines-nantes.fr/en/

Getting There

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Location

Closest City or Region: Nantes, France

Coordinates: 47.205581, -1.564041

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August 12, 2017 Trip Report

By Jeremy Dye

Trip Members

Jeremy Dye, Tara Dye, Greg Dye, Laura Dye,

Story

This place was awesome! It's kind of like steam-punk meets burning man meets tinkering mechanic. They have an old ship building yard where they display their creations. They did some fun demonstrations of their machines (spider, caterpillar, heron, etc.) Then we went over to ride the carousel, which our guides had purchased our tickets for, but our guides kind of messed up the times, so we didn't have enough time to ride the carousel before our elephant ride. Bummer. But the elephant was cool. We rode on a large mechanical elephant as it "walked" around the grounds. They had some fun things you could do to make the elephants tail wag and stuff like that. Man, it got the creative wheels spinning!

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