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The Communauté d'agglomération de La Rochelle is the communauté d'agglomération, an intercommunal structure, centred on the city of La Rochelle. It is located in the Charente-Maritime department, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, South West France. Its area is 327.0 km 2. Its population was 171,811 in 2018, of which 76,114 in La Rochelle ...
La Rochelle seen from Spot Satellite The limestone cliffs around La Rochelle reveal the Jurassic geology of the area The bedrock of La Rochelle and surrounding areas is composed of layers of limestone dating back to the Sequanian stage (upper Oxfordian stage ) of the Jurassic period (circa 160 million years ago), when a large part of France was ...
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Popular destinations include La Rochelle, Royan, Saintes, Saint-Jean-d'Angély, Rochefort, the Île d'Aix, Île de Ré and Île d'Oléron. The department is served by the TGV at Surgères and La Rochelle. It can also be reached by motorway by the A10 (E5, Paris-Bordeaux) and A837 (E602, Saintes-Rochefort).
There are over 10,000 students in Les Minimes, with campuses for Excelia Group school established in 1988, and La Rochelle University which was first opened in 1974, but became a university in 1993. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
It is connected to La Rochelle by the Canal de Marans à La Rochelle. The inhabitants of Marans are known as marandais . Marans is the most northern town in Charente-Maritime, and is sometimes considered to be the "gateway to Aunis", the former province in which it has always belonged since its creation.
10th C. – La Rochelle existed under the name of Rupella. [1] 1199 – "Communal charter" granted Eleanor, duchess of Aquitaine. [1] 1209 – Lantern Tower founded. [1] 1219 – La Rochelle besieged during the Albigensian Crusade. 1224 – Siege of La Rochelle (1224) by forces of Louis VIII of France. [1] 1298 – Hôtel de Ville completed. [2 ...