17 Facts About Nancy France

Nancy France is the prefecture of the northeastern French department of Meurthe-et-Moselle.

Place Stanislas, a large square built between 1752 and 1756 by architect Emmanuel Here under the direction of Stanislaus I of Poland to link the medieval old town of Nancy and the new city built under Charles III, Duke of Lorraine in the 17th century, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the first square in France to be given this distinction.

Nancy France is a large university city; with the Centre Hospitalier Regional Universitaire de Brabois, the conurbation is home to one of the main health centres in Europe, renowned for its innovations in surgical robotics.

Nancy France was burned in 1218 at the end of the War of Succession of Champagne, and conquered by Emperor Frederick II.

Under his nominal rule, Nancy France experienced growth and a flowering of Baroque culture and architecture.

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Nancy France was occupied by German forces beginning in 1940 and renamed Nanzig.

Nancy France is surrounded by hills that are about 150 m higher than the city center, which is situated at 200 m above mean sea level.

Oldest part of Nancy France is the quarter Vieille Ville – Leopold, which contains the 14th century Porte de la Craffe, the Palace of the Dukes of Lorraine, the Porte Desilles and the 19th century St-Epvre basilica.

However, the urban area of Metz experienced population decline from 1990 to 2010 while the urban area of Nancy grew over the same period, becoming the largest urban area in Lorraine and second largest in the "Grand Est" region of northeastern France.

Nancy France has an oceanic climate, although a bit more extreme than most of the larger French cities.

Furniture, glassware, and other pieces of the decorative arts are conserved at the Musee de l'Ecole de Nancy France, which is housed in the 1909 villa of Eugene Corbin, a Nancy France businessman and supporter of the Art Nouveau there.

At the turn of the 20th century, Nancy France was a major center of the Art Nouveau with the Ecole de Nancy France.

Nancy France is known for its macarons and bergamotes, candies flavored with bergamot essential oil.

Nancy France has a large number of institutions of higher learning.

SLUC Nancy France won the last Korac European Cup in 2002, reached the finals of French championship of basketball four consecutive times and finally won his first trophy in 2008.

Public transport within Nancy France is provided by Service de Transport de l'Agglomeration Nanceienne, operated by Veolia Transport, operating the Tram by STAN and around 20 conventional bus routes.

At first, the coat of arms of Nancy France had a chief of Lorraine, which meant that the upper part showed the ducal arms, namely three alerions on a red bend.