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In 2005, the company "Royal de Luxe" based in Nantes, built a giant elephant to celebrate Jules Verne's 100th death anniversary. It was very successful, and the city of Nantes ordered the building of a new elephant, which would remain in the "Ile de Nantes", occupying the old warehouses of the shipyard, and entertaining the public from February 15th to December 31st.
You can just go and pay him a visit or take a ride on its back or inside its belly.
It's 12m high and weighs 45 tons. 45 passengers can ride it as if they were on the 4th floor of a moving building, enjoying a magnificent view on the Loire and its banks!
On the right of the monster is the refurbished old warehouses, where it sleeps and spends the beginning of the year, while it's being serviced.
See WS for some more info.

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Additional Photos by MarieLouise Davies (maloutim) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 906 W: 175 N: 1296] (3933)
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