Bordeaux

Located in the department of Gironde, Bordeaux is a student and tourist city in the Aquitaine region. Near the Atlantic coast, the town has been renowned worlwide for centuries thanks to its vineyards. Bordeaux even has the label of "world capital of wine" in some countries.

The city is implementing a number of cultural facilities to discover its heritage and history. There are for example the Tour Pey-Berland, St. André's Cathedral, the Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum of Natural History, the Centre Jean Moulin and the city of civilizations and wine. The Southwest Capital of France, Bordeaux is classified by UNESCO Humanity World Heritage for its outstanding architectural ensembles. Bordeaux docks are one of the most beautiful urban heritage of the world, with its 18th century façade of which many buildings listed or registered as historic monuments.

The Guide du Routard describes it best. "Bordeaux is the epicenter of the whole Bordelais, about sixty kilometers from the ocean, capital of Aquitaine, coiled around the Garonne, Bordeaux has preserved its stage set, its secret atmosphere and pride somewhat haughty often rebellious vis-à-vis the capital. It owes its wealth and importance thanks to its wines and its port.

The glory of past centuries has left its traces on the walls as in the mind. The city is revealed primarily as a chiseled stone jewel, armorial, toothed in the grand style of the 18th century: Bourse, Grand Theatre, Royal Plaza .... but there are also narrow medieval streets, old neighborhoods and popular dark paces. Past the surprise beautiful facades docks, chartrons, alleys of tourny ... short of Louis XV Bordeaux, you will lose yourself in the streets of St. Michel in search of the popular Bordeaux.

Bordeaux is above all a beautiful city, simply, and we take great pleasure in visiting it. With its golden limestone that naturally darkens, it offers a range of colors, from pale blond to black dirtiest.

With three centuries of English rule that ultimately profited him with a soil and a climate that lends the greatest wines in the world, with famous men (the three M: Montesquieu, Montaigne, Mauriac) with a close and beautiful coastline, one can almost understand that Bordeaux believes itself so superior and so different. Isn't it the world capital of wine "