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Introducing La Rochelle
Known as La Ville Blanche (‘the white city’), La Rochelle’s luminous limestone façades are topped by 14th- and 15th-century towers glowing white in the bright coastal sunlight.
The arcaded walkways; half-timbered houses protected from the salt air by slate tiles; and ghoulish protruding gargoyles are rich reminders of La Rochelle’s seafaring past. One of France’s foremost seaports from the 14th to 17th centuries, early French settlers in Canada, including the founders of Montreal, set sail from here in the 17th century. La Rochelle’s cobblestone streets are fashioned in part by ships’ ballast brought back across the Atlantic.
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