Nantes’s landscape is a beautiful place to explore — something that you can best experience by visiting one of our 13

beautiful natural monuments around Nantes. To help you find the one for, you can see all the details you need to explore the best natural monuments, and better plan your next outdoor adventure!

Last updated: October 4, 2025

Leaning Stone Pine of Rue de la Collégiale

A remarkable and emblematic tree of the city of Clisson, this umbrella pine naturally leaned over to get the light from the other side of the street, then twisted to …

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Etang de Roche Ballue

Located in a beautiful natural site, this pond, in fact an old quarry filled with water, is open for swimming.

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The Trembling Stone

The Trembling Stone, perhaps a vestige of a megalith, is today lying on the banks of the Acheneau. This very large stone trembles when you climb to a specific place, hence its name the trembling stone.

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Etang Claude Dupas

Nice view of this pond, formed by a bottleneck in the upstream part of the Goulaine marsh.

Many picnic tables.

Depending on the season, the path that continues along the pond can be passable by mountain bike or gravel bike.

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Menhir de Haute-Roche

Returned to vertical at the beginning of November 2021, this menhir is the highest in Loire Atlantique with its 4.23 meters and its 24 tonnes of granite.

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Lac de Grand-Lieu

The largest natural plain lake and the second largest ornithological reserve in France, Lake Grand-Lieu offers magnificent lakeside landscapes. Here, you have to get off your bike to get as close as possible to its waters.

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Pierre Perchée and Temple of la Garenne-Lemot

You can admire these rocky buildings while strolling through the Domaine de la Garenne-Lemot park.

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Square Maurice Schwob

Park overlooking the extraordinary garden with a clear view of Nantes, the Loire and the west of the island of Nantes. There are children's play areas, a belvedere, sports fields, lawns, beautiful trees and a surprising statue.

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Jardin Extraordinaire and Misèry Quarry

Two exceptional panoramas with a view of the extraordinary garden, Loire, the island of Nantes and Trentemoul.

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Port of Château de Goulaine

At the end of a long straight line on which you can test your speed is one of the most beautiful spots to admire the Goulaine marsh.

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The Top 13 Natural Monuments around Nantes

Leaning Stone Pine of Rue de la Collégiale

Etang de Roche Ballue

The Trembling Stone

Etang Claude Dupas

Menhir de Haute-Roche

Lac de Grand-Lieu

Pierre Perchée and Temple of la Garenne-Lemot

Square Maurice Schwob

Jardin Extraordinaire and Misèry Quarry

Port of Château de Goulaine

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