The office of the Octroi became Hôtel-Bar-Restaurant

78 route de Vannes 44100 Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France
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20 September 2025
Overview

The Hôtel-bar le Longchamp, with its 26 rooms and its bar-restaurant has become a must-see place in the life of the neighborhood since the 70s. The presence of the concession at this level of the road to Vannes explains, among other things, the presence of balls, bars and other places of consumption upstream of the concession. Indeed, the spirits served there were sold to customers at lower prices because they were not subject to the city entrance tax. The grant functioned until October 1943, in full occupation, the president of the Special Delegation proposed the abolition of the Grant, «institution of another age definitively outdated». The ban was set for 1 January 1944, and the barrier - and thus the Bureau - disappeared along with the others from the road to Vannes. The former Vannes road concession office has become a hotel bar whose name – which is a given name – recalls that of a very illustrious Austrian composer. What is that name? The Hôtel-bar le Longchamp, with its 26 rooms and its bar-restaurant has become a must-see place in the life of the neighborhood since the 70s. Economic chambers for numbers of workers and VRP, a bar that serves as the neighbourhood’s “social lung”. A meeting place for people of passage and locals! It has remained the same since the 1970s. Location at crossroads: Opposite the Longchamp tram, in the heart of a Sainte-Thérèse/ Longchamp district in full mutation, opposite the Breil-Malville district, mirror of a young and popular city, on the Route de Vannes, historic merchant axis, main entry into the city of Nantes. A corner, a street corner, a "hub" of all these neighborhoods. In 2021, the hotel-bar Le Longchamp will become Le Lieu Dit.Le lieu-dit will be a popular destination, festive and fun-loving. At the same time hotel, pizza, bar, grocery and playground, the place will have as its ambition to be part of this tradition of corner, street corner that marks the entrance into the city, the meeting of several parts of Nantes, the meeting between those who are just passing by and those who animate the neighborhood on a daily basis.

Address
78 route de Vannes 44100 Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France

47.235193, -1.582556

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