ART & CULTURE
Heritage, Great outdoors, Events
In Rochefort:
- Art & history museum
- National Maritime museum
- Museum of old trades & businesses
- Old parish museum
- Shipyard rebuilding the frigate Hermione
- Old naval medical school
- Pierre Loti's house
- Royal Rope works - International Maritime Centre
- Transporter bridge
> Tourist office: rochefort-tourisme@wanadoo.fr
In La Rochelle:
- The towers
- Natural history museum
- Aquarium
- New World museum
- Waxworks museum
- Old graffiti museum
- Perfume bottle museum
- Automaton museum
> Tourist office: Tourisme.la.rochelle@wanadoo.fr
Round trips and tours: "Star shaped buildings and star fish
4 one day trips taking in the coastal defences (La Rochelle - Ile de Ré - Fouras - Fort Enet and Ile d'Aix - Forts of the Charente - Fort Chapus and Ile d'Oléron)