The summer trip to Nantes 2025
Every summer, Nantes changes its appearance. From June 28 to August 31, 2025, Le Voyage à Nantes returns with its green streetscape, its curious spirit... and its explosive works that pop up throughout the city. This year, the focus is on Strangeness: a bold theme that questions our relationship with art, reality, and the city itself.
A stay in Nantes in the summer is the opportunity to experience an offbeat, free, and joyfully disconcerting urban adventure.
The Originals Novella hotel welcomes you in the city center: an ideal location to make sure you don't miss a thing about the Summer Voyage to Nantes!
On June 28, Nantes celebrates the opening of Le Voyage Estival with La Nuit du VAN: an evening where the entire city becomes an artistic playground. Entertainment, shows, installations, and surprises are on the program, allowing you to experience culture in all its forms... and under the stars.
Follow the famous green line and discover the 11 new 2025 creations that punctuate the streets, parks, and squares, including:
Solo, as a couple, or with family, let yourself be carried away by this artistic adventure and let the city surprise you with every step. Book your room now to enjoy this summer in Nantes.
A stay in Nantes in the summer is the opportunity to experience an offbeat, free, and joyfully disconcerting urban adventure.
The Originals Novella hotel welcomes you in the city center: an ideal location to make sure you don't miss a thing about the Summer Voyage to Nantes!
Festive launch of Le Voyage Estival with La Nuit du VAN
On June 28, Nantes celebrates the opening of Le Voyage Estival with La Nuit du VAN: an evening where the entire city becomes an artistic playground. Entertainment, shows, installations, and surprises are on the program, allowing you to experience culture in all its forms... and under the stars.
The Summer Journey: open-air works on every street corner!
Follow the famous green line and discover the 11 new 2025 creations that punctuate the streets, parks, and squares, including:
- The Sound of Boots, Hermitage Stairs: Rangers climb the steps, as if carried by ghosts. A surreal military procession, led... by clown shoes.
- Mothership, Place Graslin: a 17-meter vessel made from upturned boat hulls. At once a marine skeleton and a hybrid body.
- The Durand Family Carnival, courtyard of the Hôtel de Châteaubriant: ten beings frozen in the midst of a festive metamorphosis. A strange family photo, half human,
- half bird. Arm in arm, Parc des Oblates: a giant, collaborative chess game where each piece evokes local biodiversity.
- Latest Version, Place Royale: the fountain reinterpreted with 14 hyper-realistic figures of today's Nantes residents, replacing the allegories of yesteryear.
- Strolling the Green Line: to see the invisible while strolling at your own pace.
- The Nantes Estuary in Saint-Nazaire: between art and industrial landscapes.
- Journey to the Vineyard: a wine and cultural interlude centered around Muscadet.
Solo, as a couple, or with family, let yourself be carried away by this artistic adventure and let the city surprise you with every step. Book your room now to enjoy this summer in Nantes.
