BORDEAUX - Multiviews, historical city

Reference : FR071

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"La cathédrale St. André, XIII/XVème - Le Palais de Rohan, XVIIIème
La Tour Pey-Berland, XVIème, le Grand-Théâtre, XVIIIème
La place de la Victoire, la place de la Bourse, XVIIIème
Les chevaux et la colonne des Girondins"

Location of BORDEAUX in FRANCE

Bordeaux is a port city on the Garonne River in southwest France, with one million inhabitants in its metropolitan area at a 2008 estimate. It is the capital of the Aquitaine region, as well as the prefecture of the Gironde department.

The Bordeaux-Arcachon-Libourne metropolitan area, has a population of 1 010 000 and constitutes one of the largest urban areas of France. The city is among the world's major wine industry centres. Bordeaux wine has been produced in the region since the eighth century. The historic part of the city is on the UNESCO World Heritage List as "an outstanding urban and architectural ensemble" of the 18th century.

• La cathédrale St. André, XIII/XVème
• Le Palais de Rohan, XVIIIème
• La Tour Pey-Berland, XVIème
• Le Grand-Théâtre, XVIIIème
• La place de la Victoire
• La place de la Bourse, XVIIIème
• Les chevaux et la colonne des Girondins

UNESCO w.h.s. :
Bordeaux, Port of the Moon

Date of inscription : 2007

The Port of the Moon, port city of Bordeaux in south-west France, is inscribed as an inhabited historic city, an outstanding urban and architectural ensemble, created in the age of the Enlightenment, whose values continued up to the first half of the 20th century, with more protected buildings than any other French city except Paris. It is also recognized for its historic role as a place of exchange of cultural values over more than 2,000 years, particularly since the 12th century due to commercial links with Britain and the Low Lands. Urban plans and architectural ensembles of the early 18th century onwards place the city as an outstanding example of innovative classical and neoclassical trends and give it an exceptional urban and architectural unity and coherence. Its urban form represents the success of philosophers who wanted to make towns into melting pots of humanism, universality and culture.