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The Communauté d'agglomération de La Rochelle is the communauté d'agglomération, an intercommunal structure, centred on the city of La Rochelle. It is located in the Charente-Maritime department, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, South West France. Its area is 327.0 km 2. Its population was 171,811 in 2018, of which 76,114 in La Rochelle ...
La Rochelle station. Coordinates: 46°9′10″N 1°8′44″W. Gare de La Rochelle in the early 20th century. Gare de La Rochelle is the main railway station serving La Rochelle. The station building, which includes a 45-metre-tall clock tower, was built in 1922 by Pierre Esquié for the CF de l'Etat replacing the older building.
Lantern Tower (La Rochelle) / 46.15583°N 1.15694°W / 46.15583; -1.15694. The Lantern Tower ( French: tour de la Lanterne) is one of the three medieval historic towers in La Rochelle, Poitou-Charentes, France, which guarded the port at Aunis. The Lantern tower served as a Lighthouse and a prison throughout its history.
The Diocese of La Rochelle (Diocese of La Rochelle and Saintes from 1852) was created in 1648 but the first stone of the new cathedral was not laid until 1742, by which time the architect who drew up the plans, Jacques Gabriel, was dead; the work was supervised, from a distance, by his son Ange-Jacques Gabriel. Although still not complete, it ...
Fort Louis (La Rochelle) Coordinates: 46.1558°N 1.1721°W. Fort Louis was constructed just outside the walls of La Rochelle during the 1621-1622 blockade. Fort Louis as part of the circumvolution around La Rochelle during the 1627-1628 Siege of La Rochelle. Fort Louis was a Royal fort built just outside the walls of the Huguenot city in La ...
The Canal de Marans à La Rochelle, also known as Canal de Marans, Canal de Rompsay ( French pronunciation: [kanal də ʁɔ̃se]) or Canal de La Rochelle depending on the location, is a French canal in the Charente-Maritime department connecting the city of La Rochelle with the town of Marans. It also connects the river of the Sèvre Niortaise ...
La Rochelle and its region are served by the international La Rochelle - Île de Ré Airport, which has progressively developed over the last 5 years. The train station Gare de La Rochelle offers connections to Bordeaux, Nantes, Poitiers, Paris and several regional destinations. OFP La Rochelle is a freight railway serving the port.
The Harbor of La Rochelle. The Harbor of La Rochelle is an oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, created in 1851. It is held at the Yale University Art Gallery, in New Haven. [1] It depicts the harbor of La Rochelle on the Bay of Biscay. Although Corot was producing his renowned grey landscapes by 1851, this ...