The 374-metre-long royal rope works of the naval arsenal founded by Louis XIV at Rochefort, on the Charente estuary. Ropes for the king's warships were twisted along the full length of the building, and exhibitions show how.
At the arsenal nearby, see the Hermione, a replica of the frigate that carried Lafayette to America in 1780. The estuary is a protected Grand Site, with the transporter bridge at Échillais.
A star-shaped fortified town in the marshes of Charente-Maritime, once a busy salt port, whose sea has since retreated, leaving it stranded in the fi…
Three medieval towers guarding the old harbour of La Rochelle: the Saint-Nicolas and Chain towers on either side of the entrance, between which a gre…
The 'Green Venice': a maze of canals shaded by poplars and ash trees in the marshes west of Niort, best explored by flat-bottomed boat or canoe.
The castle where King François I was born in 1494, beside the Charente River in the centre of Cognac.
Cognac, a small town on the Charente River, is the home of the brandy of the same name, and the great cognac houses offer tours in several languages.
The simple fisherman's house by the sea in the Vendée where Georges Clemenceau, French prime minister during the First World War, spent his last year…
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