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While you are in Southwest France, some of the people might talk about Bordeaux (http://www.bordeaux-tourisme.com/). Even some of them are offering the visitors to be a guide for visiting it. Bordeaux is a dock city on the Garonne stream. Bordeaux is popular with wine, Bordeaux city is one of UNESCO World Heritage Site, and it’s a home to gardens, many historic monuments, chateaux, and museums.

What is in Bordeaux?

While you decide to visit some travel destinations, you might be wanted to know what to see in that place for instance you would like to see the city view, the landscape of the area or something else. In Bordeaux there is a main public square, it’s the Esplanade des Quinconces, and it opinioned as one of the largest main public square in Europe. Near the area there are features statues of the French thinkers Montaigne and Montesquieu, and also there is Garonne Stream. The impressive’s Bordeaux bridge (Pont de Pierre) reachs the Garonne Stream. Its almost has long 500 meters and 17 supporting arches, the bridge built in 19^th century.

Botanical Gardens in Bordeaux (Jardin Botanique)

It founded at the turn of the 17^th century, as you might know this botanical garden has been at its location since 1855. It has large collection of flora and its home to the Bastide Garden. In 2005 it was designed innovatively by landscape architect Catherine Mosbach, it addresses issues of changing dynamics of landscape architecture, biodiversity, and renewable natural resources.

Musée d’Histoire Naturelle (Natural History Museum)

This museum has founded at the beginning of the 19^th century, its one of the oldest in the France, vast of collection the fossils and zoological specimens. This museum builds at a large mansion near the Jardin Botanique.

A Wine Museum, Vinorama de Bordeaux

In this museum you can learn concerning wine from all the regions in France especially in Bordeaux. It shows you the overview of wine history from Roman times to the 19^th century. When you visit there, make sure you are checking out the museum’s wine school too, in this place you will meet the experts offering to taste the wine and it sells bottles with reasonable price.

Looking for stay area in Bordeaux?

Here are some suggested places that might be suits with your needs:

• Chateau Monlot is near St. Emilion. Stay in a comfortable B&B that offers wine tastings of rare vintages. (Website is in French)
• Dordogne Holiday Lets this rental site has wonderful listings for home and apartment rentals throughout the Southwest of France
• La Terrasse à Bordeaux, a modern 2-bedroom apartment with gorgeous views of the city

Bordeaux as a place of Wines

As a well-known wine producer, Bordeaux has a large scale in region. It has approximately 287,000 acres (116,160 hectares) of vineyards, 10,000 wine-producing châteaux- some of the most established in France, 57 appellations. And annual production ranges in the region is from 850 to 900 million bottles.

Red and white wines produced here in Bordeaux’s vineyards. A blend of grapes (mixing from Merlot, Malbec, Cabernet Sauvignon, or Cabernet Franc) is for Bordeaux reds product.

And the ingredient of white Bordeaux is Sémillon, Muscadelle, and Sauvignon Blanc. Dessert wines also produced by Bordeaux. Intensely sweet (with hints of honey) white dessert wines, the Sauternes (a sub-region of Graves) are the most famous and common wines. Almost every chateaux in Bordeaux offer wine trips and sensation. And of course lots of people recommend taking profit of it as much as you could during your trip

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