Selection of the most beautiful monuments in Charente-Maritime

Door of the Clock
17000 La Rochelle

La Porte de la Grosse Horloge, built in the 14th and 18th centuries in La Rochelle, is an ancient fortified gate transformed into an iconic belfry, classified as a historical monument in 1978.

Bridge
17300 Rochefort

The Rochefort ferry bridge, built at the beginning of the 20th century, is a unique metal work in France linking Rochefort and Échillais in Charente-Maritime. Ranked a historic monument, it symbolizes the bold engineering of the time to cross the Charente without hindering navigation.

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

The Baleines Lighthouse, built in the 19th century on the island of Ré, is an emblematic lighthouse of Saint-Clément-des-Baleines in New Aquitaine, still active and classified as a historic monument.

Headlights classified as MH
17420 Saint-Palais-sur-Mer 

The lighthouse of Terre-Nègre, built in the 18th century in Saint-Palais-sur-Mer in Charente-Maritime, is a 26.60 m cylindrical tower marking the Gironde estuary and pointing to a dangerous sand bank.

Headlights classified as MH
17390 La Tremblade

The Coubre lighthouse, built at the beginning of the 20th century in La Tremblade in Charente-Maritime, is the highest lighthouse on the Charente coast, combining maritime history and pioneering concrete architecture.

Headlights classified as MH
17650 Saint-Denis-d'Oléron

Chassiron Lighthouse, built in the 19th century in Saint-Denis-d'Oléron, New Aquitaine, is an active historic maritime lighthouse, classified as a historic monument in 2012, offering panoramic views of the Atlantic Ocean and the surrounding islands.

Market
17200 Royan

The central market of Royan, a modernist building of the 1950s, is an emblematic monument of Charente-Maritime, famous for its shell-shaped concrete vault and innovative architecture.

Moorish villa
17300 Rochefort

Pierre Loti's house in Rochefort, a museum from the 18th to the 20th century, traces the life of the sea writer in a unique orientalist setting. Classified as a Historic Monument, it houses travel memories and theatre creations.