NANTES, BEST EUROPEAN DESTINATION FOR TOURISM AND CULTURE!
Nantes has just been named the best European tourist and cultural destination of the year. Le Voyage à Nantes is a marvel and without a doubt our best example, in France, of cultural and sustainable tourism. We have written about fifteen posts on its creation of high quality cultural tourism, in this little blog, and see with pleasure that everything continues, evolves and receives rewards!
Widening its playground towards the nearby vineyards or towards Saint-Nazaire, the neighboring town. Nantes Métropole has changed over the last 30 years probably more than any other city in France and has just received this Prize for the best European tourist and cultural destination of the year, elected by a jury made up of 42 experts who awarded this precious title.
We will take this opportunity to tell you the rest in 2021 and to take a look at European projects that were competing, all “participatory”. As this nice little booklet says: The strength of Travel to Nantes is its diversity!
♦ LThe jury was also sensitive to the fact that the number of visitors to Nantes has increased by + 79% in 8 summers, with two key figures: 680,000 visitors for the summer of 2018, widely attended for the cultural notoriety of the City; and the economic benefits amounted to 50 million euros, allowing the city to consolidate and continue a quality event.
♦ The summary of Nantes’ candidacy insisted on social ties “ In Nantes, culture and art are factors of cohesion and creativity an economic lever. It not only makes the inhabitants proud of their city, but makes them feel actors of all the changes and ambassadors of the Nantes spirit. And in terms of culture, Nantes is among the first in France in terms of budgetary expenditure. The historic capital of Brittany is also home to a growing number of artists and theater groups such as the famous Royal de Luxe. »Link to the Voyage à Nantes: HERE, and link to a short summary of news from the VAN, the Voyage à Nantes, Nantes the VAN on Scoop.it
I- THE NEW WORKS of the Voyage à Nantes in 2021
A new project in 2020-21 has started on the Parcours Estuaire, Nantes and Saint Nazaire invested by art since 2007, a real open-air collection of 33 works installed on the banks of the Loire in the landscapes, and for which, we have seen it in several posts in this little blog, residents are invited, solicited, questioned. Each of the works has been designed according to the site on which it is presented, and thus reveals the contrasting landscapes of the Loire estuary, between nature reserves and industrial monuments.
In January 2021 this new work will be delivered to Saint-Nazaire near the harbor master’s office, produced by the international artists Daniel Dewar and Grégory Gicquel and composed of three sculptures: The foot, The sweater and the Digestive system, works that will be more or less submerged according to the tides. It will also be a “highlight of the development of the Place du Commando, which has become a high place of conviviality and the center of attraction of the Saint-Nazaire seafront”, because the works are not placed at random but in an environment and a future to be enriched. PRESS CONTACT for the work of Saint Nazaire,: Virginie Thomast. 02 40 20 60 08 / [email protected] – Photo: © Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel – Esquisse- Le Pied, artists: Daniel Dewar and Grégory Gicquel (delivery scheduled for January 2021).
II- THE ELECTION of the best tourist and cultural destination!
♦ On Thursday November 26, 2020, the Night of the European Cultural Brands Awards 2020 took place in Potsdam. The election took place online, Covid obliges, by a jury of 42 experts from the “Culture Brand Awards”, an association of entrepreneurs which celebrated its fifteenth anniversary this year. It is a network of partners and cultural providers, investors, suppliers and European service providers.
♦ The price ! Their prize, for this best destination, includes eight categories, and the last 15 nominees are very interesting to study, on this link, with all the Culture Brands 2020 nominees , especially for those of sustainable tourism or those who have rewarded courageous human experiences: the mayor of Palermo, Leoluca Orlando received the Award of the “Best achievement” (Lifetime Achievement Award) as a politician but also as a manager cultural, for having challenged the mafia and racism with daring cultural initiatives and by relaunching ambitious projects and programs to save dilapidated neighborhoods and welcome refugees. ‘(Photo: the excellent little book which tells how Nantes introduced poetry and artists to the old industrial city)
2- NANTES and some remarkable competitors, three in Germany and one in Portugal:
– Le Monheimer Kulturwerke is a municipal body that acts as a driving force for the fields of culture, tourism and more traditional practices in urban development. With goals set by the city of the city, the Kulturwerke ensures the promotion and connection between local cultural structures and involves citizens in the design process. Its role is to create a bridge between the daily life of the inhabitants, social action and cultural sites. A meeting place in an old factory, the “Kulturraffinerie K714”, acts as a forum for the inhabitants. This the Kulturwerke is, summarizes its presentation, an “identification space and a city’s calling card for the urban, diverse society. 
». Monheimer Platform to participate in local politics: citizen participation is very important in Monheim am Rhein. “City administration involves residents in many places so that they can actively contribute to shaping decision-making processes. The administration is always listening to everything that makes our city even better. I would be happy if you contribute too! ”, writes the young mayor, Daniel Zimmermann (Peto, Micro Generational Party, for young people) who was elected at 27 as the youngest mayor the city has ever known (. “Monheim am Rhein ”is located in North Rhine-Westphalia, near Dusseldorf, and has approximately 40,000 inhabitants.)
- Tourism and architecture of Celle
Celle is one of the most beautiful Baroque cities in Germany but also a city of the Weimar and Dessau league in terms of Bauhaus architecture. This architectural importance was that of the architect Otto Haesler, who perfected the construction of social housing during the Weimar Republic. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus in 2019, the city celebrated this social architecture with a motto was the motto “Baroque meets Bauhaus” to create an identity.Celle, 70,000 inhabitants, is a town in Lower Saxony (Germany), 40 km north-east of Hanover) - City of Bendorf – A cinema to bring out ideas from citizens!
-Bendorf is a participatory city, which has developed a questioning of its inhabitants and a process of collaboration. They can thus choose the “processes and the existence of major events taking place in their city (Fairs, Exhibitions, others…), rather than being subjected to them, or being only spectators. The process is simple: associate citizens, administration, politicians and specialist planners for decisions. The old cinema, right in the center, which was threatened with closure, and has become the place people think, try and negotiate how they would like to live together here in the future through joint commitments and thematic workshops with actors. (Bendorf, approx. 17,000 inhabitants, is located 7 km north of Koblenz, a town in the Rhineland Palatinate) - Portugal : Slow Culture Travel ! the artistic travel platform “Where About Now – Travel Experiences Guided by Art “ has taken into consideration rural areas of cultural and art trips in decentralized places of the country, with a project, the Countrysiding Portugal – Digital & Analog Art Journey, which includes an interactive art guide dedicated to creative places, in particular those of the natural zones of the rural space. The format scrollytelling allows a digital experience of the text, images and mapping of the destination, but aims to invite a real exploration. Portugal site scrollé ! “Ongoing project. If you would like to be a part of it, please contact us at [email protected]. ”, says the pretty collaborative site.
This Countrysiding project was a real competitor with the Via Francigena of Switzerland The International Via Francigena Association (AIVF) is a Swiss private law association, non-profit founded 1997 On January 1, 2020, it had 2,834 members from 29 states . Its objective is to promote the paths to Rome Cantorbury –Rome) http://francigena-international.org/fr_FR/via-francigena-svizzera/
TO FIND OUT MORE SOURCE: 1- ♥ THE TRIP TO NANTES (OFFICIAL)
Read the nomination article published on 11/30/2020, on the Scoop.it du Voyage à Nantes, HERE.
2- ♥EUROPEAN CULTURAL BRANDS AWARDS are sponsored by the State of Brandenburg, the city of Potsdam and the Hoffbauer Foundation as well as the partners SAP, RSM, Bayer Arts & Culture, Kulturplakatierung, Arnold Group, ARTE Magazin, Der Tagesspiegel and Deutsche Welle TV, but also Deutsche Post / DHL and many other players. – Contact Hans-Conrad Walter Executive Partnert +49 (0) 30 53214391 and m +49 (0) 152 54216517 – E-mail: [email protected]
https://cultural-brands.com/
3- TWO NEWS: before leaving the blog, two announcements: 1- The Nantes Tables guide 2021 is finally available in print!
In a few figures, it is:
. 100 pages of good addresses selected and tested by a jury of around twenty volunteers
. 131 restaurants selected
. 31 new products
. 25 “Lives’ done well”
. 10 wine bar addresses
. 8 Food Trucks
. 63 restaurants « I love Muscadet »
. Published in 30,000 copies and distributed free of charge at Nantes.Tourisme reception (rue des Etats) and in all the restaurants in the selection.
. Also available online in French, English and Spanish versions with 2 new selection criteria: new entrants and restaurants offering take-out.
2- And, in case you are interested: A VACANCY POSITION : Ouest Médialab is recruiting a project manager (training / monitoring / events: December 4, 2020 by Julien Kostreche Co-founder and director of Ouestmedialab -Website: http://www.ouestmedialab.fr/JOB TITLE, planned for January or February 2021 Project manager in charge of training, monitoring and events GLOBAL MISSION : Under the responsibility of the Director of the association, you design and manage professional training, educational workshops, event programs and sector monitoring of Ouest Médialab. You also contribute to strategic thinking to develop the association’s service offerings; job details, HERE!
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Ken and Madonna Litta, by Leonardo Da Vinci, well that’s not sure …
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KEN THE PERFECT TOURIST was quite passionate about the new President, and, to travel, he had applied! Well not quite, he had written it, and wanted to show it to Barbie Chérie, who was a mind-blowing intellectual, as you know, and would find words better than him. But, from the first lines, she burst into tears: “But Ken, still a little month together, the time for the end of the epidemic! After, promised / sworn, you will go back to be your Perfect tourist“. He took her in his arms: “But of course, where was my head?”, He answered sheepishly.
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