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La Rochelle Self Guided Tour of Salt and Slave Ships
Important Information
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Service animals allowed
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Public transportation options are available nearby
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Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Cancellation policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
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For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
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Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
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If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
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This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund.
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Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
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Inside a grand merchant mansion sits a bronze tribute to an enslaved man born on the island that enriched this city. The mayor framed it as La Rochelle making peace with its past. Beyond the postcard-perfect harbour and its iconic twin towers lies a deeper story: as one of France’s major slave-trading ports, this audio tour invites you to explore both sides of its history. This self-guided audio walking tour of La Rochelle follows a harbour that shipped salt and wine out as white gold, then grew fat on the triangular slave trade. You'll stand where a mayor drove his dagger into the council table rather than surrender, trace a Templar fleet that vanished one night with its treasure, and meet ...
Highlights
From 2 hours to 3 hours
Offered in German (Deutsch) & 8 Others
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
From 2 hours to 3 hours
Offered in German (Deutsch) & 8 Others
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
1-year access to audio on iOS & Android. Listen to the tour anytime, as many times as you like
Audio and written guide included
100% Satisfaction Guarantee: If you don’t love the tour, write to us for a full refund
Offline access to the tour (no internet connection needed) once tour is downloaded
Images to identify stops and in app interactive map for navigation
Any physical devices or headphones
Human tour guide at location
Meeting Points
Departure
Chain Tower
This is a self-guided audio tour on the "Tourific self-guided tours" app. To activate the tour, check your email for instructions from Tourific or your booking platform sent right after booking. Can't find it? Search for "Tourific" in your email inbox and spam folder OR contact us via support.
Stand at the tower that sealed the harbour shut, until the day it blew its own roof off
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Look out over the water where a cardinal built a mile of stone to starve a city
12 minutes
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Porte de la Grosse-Horloge
Pass beneath the grand clock tower that began life as the city's most guarded gateway
8 minutes
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Step into the Templar compound whose treasure fleet slipped out one night and was never found
8 minutes
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Saint Saviour Church of La Rochelle
Find the single tower that survived every fire, siege, and demolition this church suffered
10 minutes
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Encounter the faith this whole city was punished for, and a pulpit built to vanish
10 minutes
7
La Rochelle Town Hall
Uncover the council table a starving mayor stabbed sooner than let anyone say surrender
8
Maison Henri II
Notice the magnificent facade hiding almost no house at all behind its carved stone
6 minutes
9
Pause at an ordinary door concealing a war bunker the size of a house
10
Follow your nose into the covered market for oysters, mussels, and potatoes worth their own appellation
12 minutes
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New World Museum (Musee du Nouveau-Monde)
See where a slave-trade fortune now shares its courtyard with a freed slave cast in bronze
12
Saint Louis Cathedral
Decode a cathedral built as revenge, right on the ground its rival once stood
12 minutes
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Place de verdun
Cross a plain car park sitting on the buried foundations of a vanished royal castle
12 minutes
14
Trace the street named for a merchant who begged in the gutter before his ships came home
10 minutes
15
Count the carved heads of great physicians studding a house named for the wrong doctor
8 minutes
16
Hotel de la Bourse
Search the courtyard of the old merchants' exchange for the compass rose underfoot
8 minutes
17
La Rue De L'escale
Walk the last cobbled street, paved with ballast stones ships hauled across the ocean
12 minutes
18
The Lantern Tower of La Rochelle
Read the six hundred carvings prisoners scratched into a lighthouse turned three-century jail
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Porte des Deux Moulins
Finish at the gate in the walls a king built so this city could never rebel again
10 minutes
La Rochelle Self Guided Tour of Salt and Slave Ships
About
Inside a grand merchant mansion sits a bronze tribute to an enslaved man born on the island that enriched this city. The mayor framed it as La Rochelle making peace with its past. Beyond the postcard-perfect harbour and its iconic twin towers lies a deeper story: as one of France’s major slave-trading ports, this audio tour invites you to explore both sides of its history. This self-guided audio walking tour of La Rochelle follows a harbour that shipped salt and wine out as white gold, then grew fat on the triangular slave trade. You'll stand where a mayor drove his dagger into the council table rather than surrender, trace a Templar fleet that vanished one night with its treasure, and meet ...
Highlights
From 2 hours to 3 hours
Offered in German (Deutsch) & 8 Others
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
From 2 hours to 3 hours
Offered in German (Deutsch) & 8 Others
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
1-year access to audio on iOS & Android. Listen to the tour anytime, as many times as you like
Audio and written guide included
100% Satisfaction Guarantee: If you don’t love the tour, write to us for a full refund
Offline access to the tour (no internet connection needed) once tour is downloaded
Images to identify stops and in app interactive map for navigation
Any physical devices or headphones
Human tour guide at location
Meeting Points
Departure
Chain Tower
This is a self-guided audio tour on the "Tourific self-guided tours" app. To activate the tour, check your email for instructions from Tourific or your booking platform sent right after booking. Can't find it? Search for "Tourific" in your email inbox and spam folder OR contact us via support.
