Nevers

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.