Real estate prices Saint-Herblain

Saint-Herblain covers 30 km², lies between 1 and 64 m above sea level and had 50,973 inhabitants in the 2023 census.

Saint-Herblain is a commune situated in the département of Loire-Atlantique, in the Pays de la Loire region, on the western outskirts of Nantes. With 50,973 inhabitants in 2023, it is the third largest commune in the département by population and the second largest in Nantes Métropole after Nantes. Inhabited since the Neolithic period, the town is marked by its proximity to Nantes, whose notables acquired land in Saint-Herblain in order to obtain a title of nobility or to have a holiday residence.

A little history

Few traces of the commune's past survive, as Saint-Herblain only became an important town at the end of the 20th century. Recent excavations attest to the presence of humans in the commune during the Neolithic period. Those same excavations revealed that the site of the village of Preux concealed the remains of a Gallo-Roman villa, where fruit and cereals were produced, between the second part of the 1st century and the 5th century. In 2005, during the construction of the Zénith, on the Zac Ar Mor, archaeological excavations led to the discovery of a funerary monument dating from the Bronze Age (1900–1700 BCE).

Places to see in Saint-Herblain

• the château de la Bégraisière
• the église Saint-Hermeland from the 15th century
• the château des Fouloirs
• the cure du bourg from the 18th century
• the château de la Garotterie

From Wikidata and the Wikipedia article « Saint-Herblain », licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, read on 13 October 2026. Translated from the French article. Read the article