Nancy is a French, capital city of the department of Meurthe-ET-Moselle in the region of Lorena, to the northeast of France. She had 410,000 inhabitants in 2004. Universities, Bishopric, Museums. Located in the course under the Meurthe river, near his confluence with the Moselle river, it is a Fluvial Port of the channels Marne-Rin and Paris-Nancy. Commercial center of the Region. Also it includes the urban Community of the great Nancy who counts on eight municipalities: Vandoevre-them-Nancy 35 000 habt, Laxou 15 898 habt, Villiers-them-Nancy 15 700 habt, Saint-Max, Malzeville, Maxéville, Tomblaine and Jarville-la-Malgrange.
He was capital of the ducado one of Lorena. In centuries XVI to the XVIII she was constructed most of what today it is downtown. In the heart of Nancy is Plaza Stanislas of the s. XVIII, of neoclassic style, that must its name to the man who order its construction, Stanislaw Leszczynski, the overthrown king of Poland, I complete Duke of the Lorena who governed in the middle of the s. XVII thanks to its son-in-law Luis XV.

Between remarkable monuments but it is possible to mention the following ones: Cathedral of Nancy the Cathedral: The first planes were ordered in 1700 to Giovanni Betto (author of the church of Saint-Dié and works ordered by diverse religious congregations) and was the brother of the Duke, François, that put the first stone.
Ducal palace: When he was, finally, owner of his released states of Charles him Téméraire, René II perceived that the castle of its ancestors was falling in ruins; in 1502 he commanded to construct to a set of new houses in the alignment of the colegiata the Saint-Georges. The conception of the future palace must to Jacques de Vaucouleurs who directed the work until 1522; the works continued under the reigns of the son of René, Antoine, and they were finished only under the reign of Charles III.
Seat and Basilica of Saint Epvre: The gothic, elevated building between 1436 and 1451, and scrupulously oriented, was devastated in 1863 so that him a basilica of pointed style with choir oriented towards the south could be replaced. The project of Prosper Morey (1805-1886), municipal architect, was selected and he worked in the new Saint-Epvre from 1862 to 1875.
Plaza Stanislas: Until half-full of century XVII, an ample esplanade separated the Old City of the New City of Nancy. Stanislas Leczinski, old king of Poland, when becoming Duke of Lorraine in 1737, projected to establish in this place a seat destined to honor and to glorify its son-in-law, king of France Luis XV. First of all the French real seats, it symbolizes the image of real character and welcomes the popular celebrations.