Indre Histoire d'Iles

The commune of Indre consists of three ancient rocky islets, located 8 km downstream from Nantes in the Loire estuary. The Indre Histoire d? Îles association has been committed since 1996 to the preservation of a unique site in Europe: an eighteenth-century tidal mill, built for boring the cannons of the Royal Manufacture of Indret (1777) . Fifty years later, the embankment workshop was converted into a chapel, then a parish church. The associative project of Indre Histoire d? Îles is to rehabilitate and enhance this site which was, in its time, the first industrial establishment in the region.