This square is at the centre of Bouffay, the oldest district in Nantes.
The place names, “Place du Pilori” (pillory) or Rue de la Juiverie (Jewry), give you an sense of the age of this district.
On the pedestrian streets you’ll come across half-timbered houses from the 1400s side by side with restaurants, crêperies and some of the city’s liveliest nightspots.
The square as you see it now is from the 1700s, but there are evocative remnants of a more distant past: On the corner of Rue des Échevins there’s a gothic fireplace poking right out of the wall and dating to the 15th century.
