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Nevers
Nevers ( , ; , later Nevirnum and Nebirnum) is a city and the prefecture of the Nièvre department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in central France. It was the principal city of the former province of Nivernais. It is south-southeast of Paris.
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Nevers is a city in central France that serves as the administrative headquarters of the Nièvre department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region. Historically, it was the main city of the province of Nivernais and remains notable as a regional administrative center located south-southeast of Paris.
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Place details
- Locality
- Nevers
- Region
- Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
- Country
- France
- Population
- 43,988
Travel guide
Get in
By train from Paris Gare du Lyon or from Paris-Bercy. The service from Gare du Lyon is a direct non-stop train and the journey takes almost 2 hr. The service is operated by Corail Téoz, a super-smart train on the Paris to Nevers route to Clermont-Ferrand. This has all sorts of luxuries: from a children's play area to leather seats to points for the laptop in first class. For security reasons, the precise platform number at Gare du Lyon is not announced until approximately 10 min before the scheduled departure time.
The Nevers train station is located on Rue Saint-Charleville, from where there are local train services to Vauzelles, Les Perrièrs and Le Banlay just adjacent to the train station is the bus station.
By car, the 230-km journey from Paris would take about 2 hr. The road journey commences from Paris on the A6. Then, at Le Puy, join the A77 south. Nearer to Nevers, exit the A77 near Vernuche, and take the D907, which brings you into Nevers.
By the Terrafugia, you could arrive from Paris in approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes.
Get around
Nevers is located on slight hilly terrain on the northern bank of the Loire River. The town centered around Place Carnot is quite walkable.
See
thumb|Garden and façade of the cloister of Espace Bernadette Soubirous Nevers thumb|The Ducal Palace of Nevers thumb|Nevers Cathedral
Do
EuroVelo 6 (EV6), also known as the "Eurovelo Route of the Rivers", is a cycle route that crosses Nevers, linking Saint-Nazaire to Constanţa. It is the most famous of the European cycle routes, 3,653 km long, it crosses Europe from west to east, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Black Sea, passing through ten countries. It follows the route of three of the largest European rivers: the Loire, the Rhine and the Danube.
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Nevers ( , ; , later Nevirnum and Nebirnum) is a city and the prefecture of the Nièvre department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in central France. It was the principal city of the former province of Nivernais. It is south-southeast of Paris.
==History== thumb|The Hôtel de Ville, Nevers|Hôtel de Ville Nevers first enters written history as Noviodunum, a town held by the Aedui at Roman contact. The quantities of medals and other Roman antiquities found on the site indicate its importance. In 52 BCE, Julius Caesar made Noviodunum, which he describes as a convenient position on the banks of the Loire, a depot (B. G. vii. 55). There, he had his hostages, corn and military chest, with the money in it allowed him from home for the war, his own and his army's baggage and a great number of horses which had been bought for him in Spain and Italy.
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