The Quai of the Pit is a quay of Nantes dating from the 18th century, connecting the Place of the Trade (old place of the Port to the Wine) to the Butte Saint-Anne (with Chantenay).

Presentation

This famous Nantes quay concentrated in the middle of the XVIIIe century the major part of the sea traffic of the wearing of the Nantes, then largest of France. The maritime activity since moved downstream from the Loire, on the Nantes terminals of Cheviré and Rock-Maurice.

Just as on the island Feydeau, the quay kept this time of many private mansions of Armateur S in Tuffeau, whose many ones lean appreciably because of the marshy grounds on which they were built. The Mascaron S post sometimes marine topics, sometimes bacchic.

But the quay of the Pit owes especially its reputation with the many bars with sailors and houses closed which it concentrated. If it keeps its reputation of “Hot district”, its recent restoration tends to make it more sizeable.

Its name

The quay of the Pit holds its name of an old pit present on the site. But its reputation often makes call ironically it “quay of the buttock” by the Nantes ones.

Panoramic sight

Nantes: panoramic sight of the quay of Pivot, the quay Ernest Renaud and the quay of the Pit

From left to right on the photograph (upstream of the Loire): the Belem, the Marité and the With a grid-Brézé with quay, and centers it of Salorges, the dome of Notre Dame of Good port, the frontages of the quay of the Pit and the Tour Brittany with terre.