New World Museum (Musee du Nouveau-Monde)

The New World Museum is a museum located in La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, housed in the Hôtel de Fleuriau. Dedicated to the relations between La Rochelle and the Americas then called "New World", it is the first museum to address the slave trade past of a French port and to exhibit elements linked to the slave trade and slavery in the colonies. Caribbean. Its collections are both the mirror of the New World explored by old Europe, and the reflection of a city enriched economically and culturally by the "new continent". Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.

Fontaine du Pilori

It is located on a small square at the corner of rue du Minage and rue du Cordouan. Originally, the fountain was called "Fontaine du Puits Lori" and was at the bottom of a huge circular excavation six meters (20 feet) in diameter, into which one had to descend by one of the two shaped stairs. horseshoe, difficult and dangerous access, especially in winter. In 1711 the pit was filled, and in 1722, the fountain, brought back to ground level, was operational again. A mascaron delivers the water to it. It was listed as a historical monument by a decree of March 17, 1925. Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.