Maritime heritage, lighthouses and islands classified in New Aquitaine

Headlights classified as MH
17590 Saint-Clément-des-Baleines

The Baleineaux Lighthouse, built between 1849 and 1854, is a 31 metre marine lighthouse located on a rocky strip northwest of Île de Ré, in New Aquitaine, designed by Léonce Reynaud.

Headlights classified as MH
33990 Hourtin

The Hourtin Lighthouses, built in the 19th century in Hourtin, New Aquitaine, are two 27-metre brick twin towers, one of which remains active. Located between the Atlantic Ocean and the Lake of Hourtin-Carcans, they mark a coastal interval without light signal.

Headlights classified as MH
17940 Rivedoux-Plage

Chauveau Lighthouse, built in the 19th century in Rivedoux-Plage, Charente-Maritime, is a unique, manned, low tide lighthouse measuring 30.70 metres high.

Headlights classified as MH
17123 Île-d'Aix

The Aix Island Lighthouse, built in the 19th century in Charente-Maritime, is a set of two 25.3 metre twin towers, still in operation. This historic monument, automated and non-visitable, signals the marine dangers near Aix Island in New Aquitaine.

Vessel classified
17000 La Rochelle

La Rochelle's brief way is a 20th-century bilge, built between 1942 and 1943 by the Germans in the port of this town of Charente-Maritime, classified as a historical monument in 2002.

Arsenal
17300 Rochefort

The Rochefort arsenal, built in the 2nd quarter of the 19th century in the town of Rochefort in Charente-Maritime, is a historic maritime site classified as a Historic Monument and labeled Grand Site de France.

Maritime heritage
64210 Bidart

Guéthary's atalaye in Bidart is an 18th-century old watchtower, the only whale hunting vestige in New Aquitaine, transformed into an alignment fire in the 20th century.

Maritime light
64500 Ciboure

The upstream alignment light of the port of Ciboure, built in the 1930s, is a historic lighthouse located in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, guiding the ships towards the port with a green alignment.