Amazing giant machines that walk!
In 2006, a million Londoners watched a 40-ft/12m tall mechanical elephant stride through the streets of London.
Like a piece of architecture in motion, this is just one of the amazing machines that were invented and built in Nantes ... in the Loire-Atlantique ! Best of all, you can visit the workshops to watch the imaginative engineers, sculptors and carpenters at work on the steel and wood structures for forthcoming machines, such as a giant squid, a manta ray and a giant crab. You feel as if you are in the world of Jules Verne (the local author, who wrote 20,000 Leagues under the Sea). And, you can even take a 40-minute ride on the elephant along the quayside !
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The Machines de L’île
