You can see the walking place of the 12-meter giant elephant robot 'Machine de Lil' from the following movie. That's why I arrived at the mechanical amusement park 'Les Machines de l'Ill'. The ...

The Heron will form part of a giant mechanical tree It was a gamble, but in 2004 the City of Nantes in western France decided to take it. Using funds from regional government and from the European ...

This story originally appeared on Travel + Leisure. There are a lot of places you can go to see animals in their natural habitats, but head to Les Machines de l'île in Nantes, France and you'll see ...

You hear Le Grand Elephant before you see it. It’s not just that the creature’s shrieking trumpet is so loud; it’s at a certain pitch that cuts through the air, traffic, crowd noise, everything. And ...

French art collective Les Machines de L’ile is embarking on plans to build the world’s largest hanging garden – which will be on the scale of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. The Nantes-based design ...

It was a gamble, but in 2004 the City of Nantes in western France decided to take it. Using funds from regional government and from the European Union, it invested ...

It was a gamble, but in 2004 the City of Nantes in western France decided to take it. Using funds from regional government and from the European Union, it invested ...