The second building of the Lorraine Museum (Musée Lorrain) is the former convent of the Cordeliers, a religious order of monks who wore a knotted rope or cord around their waists in earlier times. Whereas the displays in the Ducal Palace illustrate regional history as seen by the ruling classes, Read More …
The Lorraine Museum (Musée Lorrain) is a regional museum located in two buildings just a short walk north of Place Stanislas in Nancy. The first of these buildings is the former palace of the Dukes of Lorraine, which now houses a large collection of paintings, sculptures, decorative arts, scientific instruments Read More …
Nancy has a small self-service on-street bicycle rental system called vélOstan’lib, with 29 stations, 250 bicycles and 560 docking points. These numbers have not changed since 2015, so either they haven’t expanded the system since then or (more likely) they have neglected to update the numbers on their website. The Read More …
Like most French cities, Nancy had a well-functioning system of tramways, on metal tracks, for over three-quarters of a century, in this case from 1874 to 1958. In the 1950s the trams were phased out in favor of cars, which were very much in fashion at the time, supplemented only Read More …
Stanway Line 2 (now officially called Tempo 2, or T2 for short) is the main north-south bus line of Nancy. It was inaugurated in the summer of 2013 and was advertised as being a special kind of bus line called BHNS for bus à haut niveau de service (bus with Read More …
This is the Nancy train station as it looked in 2017. There are no direct trains from Frankfurt to Nancy, so I usually take the TGV from Frankfurt to Strasbourg and change there for a regional train to Nancy. This takes three hours and 46 minutes, including 19 minutes in Read More …