Saint Peter Port: the British island off the coast of France

The Castle Cornet, a fortress that dominates the port from an islet connected by a causeway, defended the island for centuries and today houses several small museums.

A short walk away, Hauteville House, where Victor Hugo lived in exile for fifteen years and wrote part of the 'Les Misérables', preserves furnishings personally decorated by the author.

Continuing, you walk through the steep streets of the center, where signs in English and Victorian architecture coexist with the Norman and French influence of the region.

As evening falls, the bunkers and German fortifications left from the Nazi occupation between 1940 and 1945 remind of a chapter often forgotten in the island's history.

Guernsey, along with the other Channel Islands, was the only British territory occupied by Nazi Germany during World War II, a legacy still visible in the fortifications scattered along the coast.

Victor Hugo wrote much of 'Les Misérables' from Hauteville House, during a political exile that lasted a total of fifteen years away from France.