Editing Rochefort, Charente-Maritime (section)

==Sights==
{{wide image|ArsenalDeRochefort1690.jpg|750px|Rochefort arsenal, in 1690|45%|right}}
[[File:Map of Rochefort (around 1750).tif|thumb|Map of Rochefort (around 1750)]]
Noteworthy buildings of the original naval establishment include:
* a hospital, incorporating a School of Naval Medicine (now a museum)
* the Arsenal with a monumental gateway and the National Navy Museum (Musée National de la Marine)
* the Rope Factory (corderie), at over 370 metres long for centuries the longest manufacturing building in the world
* three dry docks (radoubs) for shipbuilding and repair
* a cannon foundry (not open to the public)

Other sights include:
* a rare [[transporter bridge]] (pont transbordeur), consisting of a high level bridge containing a transport mechanism from which a ferry platform is suspended. This bridge, the [[Rochefort-Martrou Transporter Bridge]], built in 1900, is the only remaining one in France and one of only eight still in service world-wide
* the municipal theatre (la Coupe d'Or)
* the railway station
* Saint-Louis church
* Pierre Loti's house (closed indefinitely pending completion of renovation work)
* Museums of Naval Aeronautics, old-time trades (Commerces d'Autrefois), and local archaeology (la Vieille Paroisse)
* [[Conservatoire du Bégonia]], the world's largest [[begonia]] collection
* [[French frigate Hermione (2014)|''L'Hermione'']], a replica of a 1779 frigate completed in the town in 2014