Port-au-Persil Pottery has played a major role in ceramic history of Quebec. It stands today as one of the oldest pottery school in Québec and one of the oldest cultural institution of Charlevoix. Well established along highway 138 at the entrance of the town of Saint-Simeon, the yellow barn is located at the merging point of roads leading to the Saguenay region to the north, the whale-watching area and the North-Shore region to the east and the Gaspé and the Maritimes to the south by ferry-boat across the Saint-Lawrence River.\ more... See more text