Imagine giant mechanical animals roaming with lights flashing, wheezing steam and constructed out of natural materials that you can ride, sit on and operate. This describes the amazing artistic and creative steam punk wonderland called Les Machines de l’Île Nantes which is in the city of Nantes in France.

"It is the only place where you'll find Jules Verne's "Invented Worlds", the mechanical universe of Leonardo da Vinci, and Nantes' industrial history, all on the exceptional site of the city's former shipyards." - Les Machines de l’Île Nantes

Les Machines de l’Île Nantes

Les Machines de l’Île Nantes is in Nantes, in the Département de la Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire and is still known as the capital of Brittany even though it is in a different region. This attraction with all its machines is open for tourists, as is the workshop where the mechanical machines created out of recycled metal, leather and handcrafted wood with their pulleys ropes, hydraulic cylinders and welded metal frames are made and repaired.