Discover a unique robot park in France

All the animals in Les Machines de L'lle are giant, lively, artistic machines inspired by the Twenty Thousand-mile novel.

Les Machines de L'lle is located in the industrial port city of Nantes in northwestern France - Jules Verne's hometown is famous for the Twenty Thousand-mile novel.

The creators of this park want to build a new wonderland that blends Jules Verne's novel world and the mechanical world of Leonardo Di Vinci.

Octopus robot

At this point, you can see the big octopus that are pointing the tentacles around like they want to grab anyone or the big fish that are mouth-watering. It is a play area with 25m high sea animals, 24 waves also mechanically and three levels of sea animals spinning like a wooden horse roundabout game.

Director Francois Delaroziere said they want to bring to people, especially children, the world is close to animals, not scary monsters. Therefore, visitors can climb these animals to participate in the adventure throughout this fantasy world and they are the main characters.

Welcoming them was a giant elephant weighing 48 tons, 12m high, waving its ears, occasionally bending the hose up to spray water back and forth on the road to tease. This animal is reminiscent of Jules Verne's La Maison à vapeur (The Steam House / The Steam House), which includes a story about a group of colonial explorers living in an elephant's house Steam-powered machine pulls away.

Elephant robot

This elephant can walk around the zoo at a steady speed of 3 km / hour. Inside it is a multitude of things related to machines such as 450 horsepower engines, 60 pistons, 2,000 liters of oil, complex transmission and wheel systems.

Les Machines de L'lle is an old shipyard, now turned into a factory that creates real dreams. The artists and engineers here have created countless impressive animals such as giant herons, 15m long spiders . They are all creating a special amusement park on the 337ha campus - one of the capital projects. The largest market in Europe.

Interestingly, this park is free to visit and you only have to buy a ticket when you want to climb on an animal.