La Cité du Vin

The world of wine has been researched in depth at La Cité du Vin. The curvaceous gold building glitters in the sun and its particular 3000 sq meters of exhibits will be magnificent and sensory. Digital guides lead individuals across 20 sections covering everything out of wine production, grape varieties and blossom farming to 21st-century wine styles, ancient wine exchange and personalities.

La Base Sous-Marine

the city’s eeriest and most menacing sight, that this mammoth hulk of a submarine base (1941–43) was one of five built on the Atlantic Coast by the Germans during the WWII. Produced as a vine to shield German u boats from aerial attack, it pens base proved hopeless to destroy — from British forces during WWII and subsequently by the city, that now make use of the eye-sore reinforced-concrete architecture as a badly cool, underground cultural center, art gallery and also music theater place.

Miroir d’Eau

A fountain of forms is the planet’s largest reflecting pool. Covering an area of 3450 sq meters of black granite on the quayside opposite the imposing Palais de la Bourse, the water mirror’ provides hours of entertainment on warm sunny days once the reflections in its narrow slick of warm water — drained and refilled every half-hour — are stunning. Every 23 minutes a dense fog-like vapor is ejected for 3 full minutes to improve the pleasure (and photo opportunities).

Cathédrale St-André

A Unesco World Heritage Site Before the Town’s classification, Even the Cathédrale St-André, lords it over the city. The Studio’s earliest division goes from 1096; most of the things you see now were built from the 13th and 14th centuries. Enjoy masonry carvings in the north portal.

Basilique St-Michel

This imposing Flamboyant church is located at the core of St Michel. Begun in the 14th century, it required more than 200 years to finish and is best known for its impressive stained glass. The 1960s stained glass windows are dazzling, although, during WWII, all the initial windows were destroyed with the exclusion of those in the Chapelle de Mons. Much like the palace, the 114m-tall bell tower nicknamed La Flèche — stands beside the church and will be climbed. Views are panoramic.

Place de la Bourse

This is Bordeaux’s most square. Even a mirage of sophistication and elegance, it represented the magnificent opening from the center and was organized from architect Ange-Jacques Gabriel between 1775 and 1730. Exotic city walls were razed to make way to the huge horseshoe expanse, framed by elegant palaces including Hôtel des Fermes (today a traditions museum) to accommodate the king’s tax collectors and the city’s shipping market, Palais de la Bourse.

Le Garage Moderne

A trio of mechanisms help sailors mend their cars and bicycles at this garage that doubles as the distance from the Bacalan district. Help yourself to coffee or tea, and drift around the vast hangar packed into the rafters using a vast array of vintage curiosities: an older Aquitaine bus, cinema seats, all sorts, flowery crockery.

Musée du Vin et du Négoce

This small bamboo and Trade Museum, concealed a few of the town’s earliest buildings — an Irish merchant’s house dating to 17-20 at the primeval trading district of Chartrons — supplies a fascinating insight into the historical origins of Bordeaux’s wine trade and the value of the négociant (merchant dealer ) from the 18th and 19th centuries. The cellars, 33m long, display dozens of artifacts, for example, every size of wine jar out of an Avion to a Melchior and oak barrels.

Porte Cailhau

The major entry into medieval Bordeaux, this grandiose 15th-century city gate was built to celebrate King Charles VII’s victory at the Battle of Fornovo (1495) along with conquest of the kingdom of Naples. The effort in Italy gave the French preference to the Renaissance and the 35m-high city gate might be described as a Renaissance chateau in miniature form with turrets that were witch-hat its elegant slate roof and castle-like windows peering out throughout the river above the archway.

Musée de la Mer et de la Marine

Slated to start by the Basins à Flot in 20-19, this fresh memorial comprises three floors of exhibition space devoted to almost everything there’s to know about the maritime environment of Bordeaux, including culture, science, its history, and customs. Topics include the fascinating world of oceanography, naval battles, the conquest of the Atlantic and the history of discovery and navigation. Local Bordeaux architect Olivier Brochet — designed the construction — a work of contemporary architecture designed to appear like an ocean liner.

Musée d’Aquitaine

Gallo-Roman statues and relics dating back to 25,000 years are among the highlights in civilizations museum and this heritage. Grab a floor plan and also borrow a catalog to appreciate the exhibits that span through to Atlantic commerce and slavery, world cultures and Bordeaux’s development like a world vent in the 19th century. Temporary exhibitions cost extra.

Institut Culturel Bernard Magrez

Glittering glass vases flooring molded ceilings and reasonably make a wonderfully romantic background for the compelling contemporary art exhibitions held at Château Labottière. The neo-classical chateau was constructed in 1773 for Bordelais brothers Antoine and Jacques Labottière who ran a printing business in Bordeaux and it is owned today by the Bernard Magrez ethnic convention.

Basilique St-Seurin

It had been about that vast Romanesque complex the quartier of all Saint-Seurin climbed in the 11th century. Since the 5th century, a church focused on St-Etienne has burst on this particular site where Gallo-Romans formerly buried their dead in a huge necropolis here. The church became a crucial stop for medieval pilgrims after the Camino de Santiago de Compostela (means of St-James into Spain), and construction work continued into the 18th century.

Grosse Cloche

Guarded by a twinset of all witch-hat capped towers, that this Gothic belfry was built on the vestiges of 13th-century protective ramparts and later served as either a prison and the bell tower of this neighboring Hôtel de Ville (city hall). The massive bell, created as Armande-Louise in 1775 (bells always have titles ), weighs a hefty 7750kg and mandatory 14 pairs of oxen to permeate it into place.

Place de la Victoire

The finest people-watching square of the city, place with students lingering over drinks on the cafe terraces here. While kids clamber at the center of the square in the bronze turtles wait-staff dodge passing pigeons and buses. The sculpture (2005), by artist Ivan Theimer, stands under the Colonne de la Victoire, a marble obelisk by precisely the same artist. Both works contain blossoms as a celebration of Bordelais wine civilization.

Musée National des Douanes

The finest people-watching square of the city, place with students lingering over drinks on the cafe terraces here. While kids clamber at the center of the square in the bronze turtles wait-staff dodge passing pigeons and buses. The sculpture (2005), by artist Ivan Theimer, stands under the Colonne de la Victoire, a marble obelisk by precisely the same artist. Both works contain blossoms as a celebration of Bordelais wine civilization.

Musée des Beaux Arts

The evolution of Occidental art from the Renaissance into the mid-20th century is based on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, which occupies just two wings of this de Ville of Bordeaux. The museum was established in 1801; highlights comprise 17thcentury Flemish, Dutch and Italian paintings, and also the last work painted by one of Bordeaux’s earliest (and most celebrated) female musicians, Rosa Bonheur (1822–99) who famously wore men’s pants when she worked.

Les Vivres de l’Art

Rub shoulders using bohemian Bordeaux at this ramshackle atelier (artist workshop) at which Jean-François Buisson, certainly one of the resident artists, welds scrap-metal items into amazing sculptures and art installations. Lots of the works adorn the garden, peppered with chairs and recycled tables, a bar and other’dance floor.’ The graceful neoclassical pavilion from 1785 was originally a military base for marines.

Église Ste-Croix

Exquisite sculptures representing other and greed, terrible lust vices adorn the with the elegant church at Ste Croix. Built between the 12th and 11th centuries while an adjoining Benedictine abbey’s abbey church, this is the oldest church of Bordeaux. The Bell-tower left of the principal entry was only added in the 19th century. In the original Dom Bedos pipe organ (1740–55) was transferred into the Palace in 1812.

Musée d’Art Contemporain

Built in 1824 as a shop for French produce like avocado, coffee, peanuts and vanilla, the most cavernous Entrepôts Lainé makes a dramatic background for cutting-edge advanced art at Bordeaux’s Museum of Contemporary Art. Highlights include works by photographs of the derelict warehouse inside the 1980s and Keith Haring by Parisian photographer Georges Rousse. Temporary displays control a greater admission fee (adult/child $7/free).

Pont Jacques Chaban-Delmas

Europe’s highest lift bridge crosses the River Garonne with elegance and aplomb . Its four pylons towering 77m tall are green in low tide and illuminated blue in high tide.

Musée de l’Histoire Maritime de Bordeaux

Meet traders, the ship owners, explorers, navigators, poets and philosophers who led to the rich maritime history of the city in this small memorial, hidden away at a centuries-old Chartrons townhouse. Maps, types and navigational tools of boats are.

Musée des Arts Décoratifs et du Design

Faience pottery, ceramic, gold, iron, glasswork, and artwork are displayed at the small Cosmetic Arts and Design Museum, at home within a tasteful golden-stone hôtel particulier (private mansion) dating to 1779. Exhibitions cost extra. Its cafe, with courtyard seats, can be a peaceful spot.