Le Vieux Port (Old Harbor)

With about 100,000 inhabitants, La Rochelle is a quiet town on the west coast of France, north of the Gironde, rated as one of the most attractive centers between the coasts of Brittany and the Bay of Biscay. Among these, stands St. Nicholas Tower, 42 meters high, built on oak pillars. The towers of San Nicolas and the chain guard the narrow entrance to the Old Port. The tour Saint-Nicolas, replaced an earlier one from the second half of the C14th. It has three rooms and a small octagonal overlapping maze of stairs and passages leading to the lookouts. Opposite is the tour de la Chaîne, the chain tower, founded in the fourteenth century and severely damaged in later conflicts, but restored in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The "Vieux Port" of the Rochelle is one of the most well-known ports in France. The entrance to the port is guarded by two towers: la Tour Chain and the Tour Saint-Nicolas. You have to go during the day, while people are passing by. Eat an ice cream, sunbathe on the terraces, it's very nice. It's also very lively at night. Around there are a lot of bars and restaurants. In the summer there's a lot of entertainment and booths.