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Grosse Cloche square in Bordeaux featuring the medieval bell tower, historic buildings with red shutters, pedestrians, cyclists, and lush green trees under clear sky.
© Nicolas Duffaure

The city and its heritage

A world-renowned city, Bordeaux is famed for its vineyards, gastronomy, and unique art de vivre. But there’s more! To explore the city and its UNESCO heritage, you will be spoilt for choice. Whether you wish to wander through Bordeaux’s World Heritage area and its beautiful quarters, discover the city’s sites and monuments by bike, visit its museums, enjoy a romantic weekend, or travel with your children, you won’t be bored!

 

 

Sites & monuments

Cette photographie met en avant un enfant pédalant sur le miroir d'eau.

Water Mirror
The Grand Theatre of Bordeaux featuring its majestic neoclassical facade, imposing white columns, and a bustling plaza with visitors on a sunny day.

Opera House
Indoor courtyard at Darwin ecosystem in Bordeaux with visitors seated at tables, surrounded by stone buildings with arcades and visible metal construction structures

Darwin ecosystem, Bordeaux's alternative space
Twilight view of Bordeaux featuring the illuminated Porte Cailhau in the foreground, classical facades along the waterfront, the spires of Saint-André Cathedral in the background, and the Garonne River with a river cruise boat.
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Porte Cailhau
Place Pey Berland et Cathédrale Saint-André © Teddy Verneuil

Cathedral & Pey-Beland tower
The Grosse Cloche of Bordeaux, a 15th-century medieval tower with twin conical spires, clock and bell, surrounded by historic stone buildings on a narrow cobblestone street.

Grosse cloche
Place des Quinconces

The Place des Quinconces in Bordeaux
Bordeaux Cathedral Saint-André lit up at night, featuring two Gothic spires, ornate stonework facade, and an empty plaza.

Bordeaux's most beautiful churches
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Visit more, spend less!

For those who wish to make the most of their stay, the Bordeaux CityPass is really the best. This pass is available for 24, 48, 72 or 96 consecutive hours. Included:

  • La Cité du Vin (before 12pm)
  • The Bassins de Lumières
  • Unlimited access to tram, bus, river shuttle
  • 20 museums and monuments
  • 1 guided tour
  • Many discounts on cruises, wine tours and more
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Museums

The Cité du Vin in Bordeaux, a modern architectural building with tilted illuminated facade reflected in still water at dusk

The Cité du Vin, a world of cultures

Aquitaine Museum

Les Bassins des Lumières

Museum of the Sea and the Navy

La Méca : la Maison de l’économie créative et culturelle en Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Museum of Fine Arts

Museum of Decorative Arts & Design

CAPC Museum of contemporary Art
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The districts of Bordeaux

Public square in Bordeaux featuring café terraces, green trees and Haussmann-style stone buildings with pedestrians and seated customers
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Old town and Saint-Pierre district
Bordeaux's Place de la Comédie featuring the Grand Theatre with majestic columns, cinema signage, outdoor café terraces with white umbrellas, and autumn foliage under clear blue sky.
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Grands Hommes
View of Bordeaux Public Garden with monument in the background, framed by lush greenery and white flowers in the foreground
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Saint Seurin, Public Garden, Fondaudège
A pedestrian street in Bordeaux featuring a majestic 19th-century stone gate, surrounded by golden Haussmann-style buildings with shops and strolling visitors.
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Hôtel de Ville, Mériadeck, Gambetta
A modern blue tram in front of Bordeaux Saint-Jean railway station, a neoclassical building with ornate facade, on a sunny day with blue sky.
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Saint-Michel, Sainte-Croix, Saint-Jean Station
Urban beach scene at Bordeaux La Bastide at sunset, with visitors relaxing around wooden barrels and deck chairs, Saint-Michel Cathedral visible in the background.
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La Bastide
Aerial sunset view of Bordeaux's Bassins à flot district featuring the modern Museum of Natural History building in the foreground, the Garonne River, and the city skyline.
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Bassins à flot, Bacalan
Rue Ramonet in Bordeaux Chartrons district, cobblestone street lined with stone buildings covered in ivy, pedestrians and cyclists, blue sky.
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Chartrons

Visit Bordeaux with a guide

All visitors passing through Bordeaux- be it for business or pleasure, whether you’re just getting started or you’re a connoisseur of the region- live the Bordeaux experience: history, architecture, essential knowledge or old stories, the simple spectacle of everyday life...

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Discovering Bordeaux
Bordeaux walking tour (morning)

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Bordeaux Wine Visits : Vineyards, Wineries & Wine Tasting Experiences
An afternoon wine tour in Medoc

Starting at 99.00€ / pers.

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Discovering Bordeaux
Lunch-Cruise in Bordeaux

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Bordeaux heritage photos

Children playing in the Water Mirror at Place de la Bourse in Bordeaux, with 18th-century classical buildings reflected in the mist on a sunny day.
© Steve Le Clech Photos
The Grosse Cloche of Bordeaux, a 15th-century medieval tower with twin conical spires, clock and bell, surrounded by historic stone buildings on a narrow cobblestone street.
© rh2010
A pedestrian street in Bordeaux featuring a majestic 19th-century stone gate, surrounded by golden Haussmann-style buildings with shops and strolling visitors.
© Nicolas Duffaure
Sunset view of a footbridge in Bordeaux with cyclists, the Saint-Michel Spire and ornamental street lamps in the background
© Teddy Verneuil - @lezbroz
Public square in Bordeaux with café terrace, 18th-century Haussmann-style buildings, green trees and pedestrians.
© Loïc Graniczny
Grosse Cloche square in Bordeaux featuring the medieval bell tower, historic buildings with red shutters, pedestrians, cyclists, and lush green trees under clear sky.
© Nicolas Duffaure
The Grand Theatre of Bordeaux, a neoclassical building with stone facades and white Corinthian columns, located in the heart of Bordeaux's city center.
© David Remazeilles
The Saint-Michel spire in Bordeaux, a Gothic church with its distinctive pointed tower, framed by Haussmann-style buildings and a JULO shop at the bottom right.
© Nicolas Duffaure

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