Large Clock
The Grosse Clock was in the beginning a door of the strengthened city of La Rochelle, opened in the primitive enclosure. At the 13th century its name was the door of Parrot or Perrot, because it gave access to the suburb of this name. The door was bored of two bays. Broadest, for the carriages, smallest, for the pedestrians.
In 1478, one surmounted it by an octagonal bell-tower, capped of a Campanile sheltering the bell of the clock.
In 1672, one joins together two bays in only one arcade, in order to facilitate circulation.
In 1746, the upper part of the building was demolished to make place with current construction in the form of trust Louis XV flanked scientific and military attributes.
Today, it shelters the Archaeological Museum and remains one of the principal points of passage between the quays and the old city.
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