Discover la rochelle

To see :

Deal Market Quartier St Nicolas et Place de la Motte Rouge à La Rochelle

Visit the tower of the lantern, known as of the Four Sergents (15th century)

Stroll within the parks and gardens of the city: Between sea and History, la Rochelle gives up with the gardens the last care of its beauty. The Parks carry out to the old city, trees and flowers are never far...

Visit the cathedral

After the seat of 1628 and their victory, the catholics judged good to make ex-city the strong Protestant head of a diocese.

Visit the TOWER ST NICOLAS 14th century. A True tour turned towards the sea. To see, the Gothic BELL-TOWER BARTHELEMY Bell-tower of the 15th century. Visit the Museum of the Automats. Visit the Aquarium of La Rochelle Six times vaster than the first one, the new aquarium invites you to an exploration of faunas and flora of all the oceans and seas of the world. A setting in original scene holds for you surprised and emotions.

Maritime museum Neptunéa: On board on our ships, embark as sailor on the trawler "l'Angoumois"...

Museum Rochelais of the protestant history.

For entertainment, visit the Museum of the Perfume Bottle, it presents a very astonishing collection of a thousand of bottles, little-samples, from limp to powder, one century of activity of this luxurious industry.

The La Rochelle's Gallery: For the people that like currencies and history, Alain Bailly prepared an exposure of currencies, throw, medals, tickets and engravings having a bond at the town

Mme Grévin's museum: Located on the old port, it shows fabulous scenes of La Rochelle history from the 17th century to our days... To see, the FOUNTAIN OF PILORI Visit the Museum of the old Graffiti : the only one in West of France, 8 km in the North of La Rochelle and in edge of the Bay de l'Aiguillon, the Museum of the old Graffiti of Marsilly opens its doors in the splendid room of Pélerins of the church St Pierre Bell-tower-Porch.

To see:

The OLD DISTRICT : THE DISTRICT OF COUGNES Let's spend an evening at the théatre

Not to be missed, in July, each year, the Francofolies : The Company FRANCOFOLIES cultivates the original passion of Jean-Louis Foulquier: the development of the French-speaking song and diffusion of the young artists.

Visit of the Museum d'Orbigny-Bernon Specialized out of ceramics, this museum has also invaluable funds of the Extreme-East art. Market hall and places

Market: opened every day

Natural history museum : This museum classified is the only one in Europe introducing a Cabinet of Curiosities made up at the XVIIIème century.

Let's taste the regional products well known : Cognac, Pineau, oysters, moulds and poissons.More recently, the Rex rabbit.

Spring tides in Chatelaillon: Discover fauna and flora of l'estran one day of low spring tide. Visit remainders of the old Chatelaillon, reading of the landscape

Discover l'estran.

Visit the village of Boucholeurs.

DISCOVER the PRODUCTS OF the SOIL ON the OLD PORT, which since XIIIe century occupies this site. It was probably that at its origins, it was strengthened. The ARCADES the streets with arcades have a specificity to a city of which the commercial vocation.

The architectural wealth of La Rochelle is not only illustrated with its monuments, but also with a strong concentration in all the center town streets of houses from the 15th and 18th century. Houses with sides made of wood and middle age slates, stone frontages carved of the 16th and 17th century, sobriety and nobility of the hotels of the 18th century.