• Business schools

• Other universities

Artistic teaching

School of the Conservatory fine art of Bordeaux

with regional radiation of Bordeaux

Transport

Roads and highways

Chemin de iron

See also: Station Midsummer's Day

The railroads make their appearance in 1841 in Bordeaux with the opening of the line between Bordeaux and Tests It by the Railroad company of Bordeaux with Teste. The first station of Bordeaux (Bordeaux-Ségur) is then inaugurated. This station was replaced by a barracks and was at the level of the current street of Pessac.
In 1852 the Compagnie of Paris-Orleans opens the line between Bordeaux and Angouleme allowing the connection between Bordeaux and Paris. The trains leave then the station of Bordeaux-Orleans (Bordeaux-Country house), open Right Bank. In 1853, the Railroad company of Bordeaux with Teste is taken again by Compagnie of the railroads of the South. In 1855, the station of Bordeaux-Ségur is removed and replaced by the Bordeaux-Saint-Jean station. There are then two principal networks with two main stations belonging to two different companies. This situation is explained by the fact why there was no railway bridge making it possible to cross the the Garonne. The travellers on the basis of Paris and wishing to go towards the South of the Aquitaine was to go down to the station from Bordeaux Orleans, to cross the Garonne and to take again the train with the Gare Midsummer's Day. A footbridge of connection is built between the two stations in 1860 by Gustave Eiffel. The station of Orleans remains however the terminus of the Company of Paris-Orleans (towards Clermont-Ferrand, Lyon, Paris). In 1898, the Gare Midsummer's Day current is built in order to accommodate more travellers. The station of Orleans then loses little by little its utility and the fusion of the two railway companies (Paris-Orleans and Midi) in 1934 and the creation of the SNCF in 1938 rings the final knell of this station to the profit of the Gare Midsummer's Day. A long time unused after several cancelled projects and a concert of Black Desire, the building of the station of Orleans was reconverted in cinema.

Bordeaux is nowadays an important rail junction between Paris and the Spain. The main station of Bordeaux (Midsummer's Day station) is stopped at by many TGV. Bordeaux is indeed connected by TGV to Paris - Montparnasse, to Toulouse, Irún, Dax, Hendaye, Pau… Bordeaux is also connected by trains coral and FOR THE THIRD TIME to Nantes, Périgueux, Mount-with-Marsan, Arcachon, Lyon, Clermont-Ferrand by the Ventadour. Bordeaux also has two stations served by the regional trains, Caudéran and Saint-Louis parks it, which before was located close to the industrial port for the Fret and the travellers towards the Médoc, moved towards Bouscat by security measure, the old station is replaced by a supermarket and the old marshalling yard was recently destroyed following the installation of Urbanisme.
The Bénauge station was recently destroyed for the installation of the railways and the reopening of the station of Cenon which is directly served by the tram as the Saint-Louis station which will reinforce the line Blanquefort towards Bordeaux Midsummer's Day (30 current mn) in order to serve some communes.
The railway network of Bordeaux tends to saturation, primarily due to the railway stopper of Bordeaux. Dialogs and a second railway bridge on the the Garonne parallel with the footbridge Eiffel are currently in hand to make jump this stopper and prepare the arrival of a line TGV at high speed in Bordeaux.

Air transports

See also: Airport of Bordeaux - Mérignac

The airport of Bordeaux is accessible since the by-pass (left 11b) but also via public transport (direct shuttle or drunk n°73 city).

Public transport

Bordeaux and its agglomeration (the CUB) have an important joint grid system. The unit is gathered under name TBC for “Tram and Bus of the CUB”. This company belongs to Connex Bordeaux, company of the group Véolia Transport which manages the network by a contract of public service delegation. TBC replaced the CGFTE the July 3rd 2004 after the reorganization of the network following the startup of the line B of the Tramway of Bordeaux.

The network TBC is composed of:

• 3 tram lines (line, line and line)
• 76 lines of bus of day (normal and express train), majority being connected to the tram (from 1 to 95)
• 12 lines of bus of night (of S1 with S12)
• a electric shuttle
• Service Créabus (Drunk with the request)

Bordeaux obtained a network of tram whose first line (A) was inaugurated the December 21st 2003. This tram has like characteristic to use the system of Alimentation by the ground or APS, which makes it possible not to install a Caténaire S in the historical quarters. The town hall and the CUB decided the creation of this tram after having given up a project of Métro light automatic of the type VALLEY. The creation of a subway in Bordeaux was announced in 1993 but of the studies (cost for the city: 300 French Franc million) showed that this means of transport was not adapted to the town of Bordeaux and that its construction appeared very expensive: only two lines envisaged, including one of 15,7 km and the other of 6,3 km, for nearly 7 billion francs. Alain Juppe ended up imposing the tram with the support of the socialist opposition.

The line has was inaugurated the December 21st 2003 between Mériadeck and Lormont/Cenon in the presence of Jacques Chirac and of Alain Juppe then mayor. The many engineering problems which had with failures of the APS involved delays in the opening of the lines B and C envisaged in spring 2004. The line C was finally open the April 24th 2004 between the Quinconces and the Gare Midsummer's Day. The line B was open partially the May 15th 2004 on a section of 2,2 km between the Quincunxes and Saint Nicolas's Day. The remainder of the line towards the campus and Pessac will be open only the July 3rd 2004 at the same time as the network TBC reorganized around the tram. The three lines will be prolonged in 2007.

Historical quarters of Bordeaux

• Caudéran
• Victoire
• Nansouty
• Saint-Michel
• Capuchins
• Town hall
• Quincunxes

• Fondaudège
• Chartrons
• Midsummer's Day
• Holy-Cross
• Belcier
• Country house
• Mériadeck

• Bordeaux Lake
• Holy Bacalan
• Genoa
• the Large Park
• Saint-Pierre
• Saint-Augustin
• Mowed the

The district of Bordeaux-Lake joins together, around a Water level artificial of 160 Hectare S, an exhibition site, a Palais of the congresses, a center Hôtel ier, a base of outdoor and leisures (center of veil,…), a Floral garden and a Cycle-racing track. Many demonstrations proceed there: the International exhibition, Vinexpo, international Jumping, the Six cyclists days of Bordeaux…

To note that the town hall of Bordeaux created into 1995 of the administrative districts, in particular with an aim of creating councils of districts. Those gather sometimes several different historical quarters.

Culture and inheritance

Monuments

Classical architecture

The monument was designed by the architect Victor Rich, the sculptor of Bordeaux Achille Dumilâtre like Felix Charpentier and Gustave Debrie. They raised a column, placed at the center of two half-basins, surmounted with 43 meters of the ground, by the Spirit of the Liberty breaking its irons . Other statues supplement the unit: the French Cockerel , the Platform , the Eloquence and the History , turned towards the river, constitute the dedication of this monument to the Girondins deputies; other side, looking towards the city, three statues of women represent the town of Bordeaux, the the Garonne as well as the the Dordogne. Removed during the Second world war to recover metal, all these elements will find their initial place only in 1983.

In the basin turned towards the Large Theater, it is “ the Triumph of the Republic ” which was selected like topic, with statues representing the work and safety, symbolized by the Forgeron and the Lion . In the second basin, directed towards the public garden, it is the Triomphe of the Harmony which protects the Fraternité and the Abondance , source of the prosperity of the Commerce and the Industrie , symbolized by the three children on the left, while the Arts are represented by the three other children on the right. In this basin, the horses of Gustave Debrie bring the Bonheur - expressed by a dolphin - to chérubin.

; Large Theater (place of the Comedy) The place of the Comedy is on the site of the forum Gallo-Roman where were located the Pillars of Supervision (Tutela, protective goddess of the city), shaved on order of Louis XIV, after the disorders of the Fronde then a bloody revolt antifiscale, to facilitate the shooting of the gun S of the Château Trumpet on the rebellious city.

Classified historic building, the Grand Theater was built by the Architecte Victor Louis between 1773 and 1780. Perfect example of a Theater with Italian the. Last restoration in 1991. Since it found its interior decoration of origin (Marbre, Or and Bleu).

The Peristyle of its frontage, inspired of Antiquity, is supported by twelve column S Corinthian. The Balustrade is decorated of twelve Statue S of stone representing the nine Muses and three goddess S: (Junon, Venus, Minerve). Certain scenes of the film Beaumarchais insolate it were turned there.

; Alleys of Tourny (close to the place of the Comedy) This esplanade was arranged between 1743 and 1757 by the intendant Tourny. Broad and long, it 65 265 meters meters is bordered on the even side of buildings with frontages Louis XV. The latter comprised in the beginning only one ground floor and a stage. The majority of them were raised after the destruction of the Trompette castle to the site of current the Place of the Quincunxes because they did not obstruct any more the shootings of gun. The Immeuble S located on the side Impair were built at the 19th century. The carousel is present on the place throughout the year.

; Bridge of Pierre It connects left bank to the district of the Country house. First Bridge on the the Garonne, it was built on order of Napoleon {{Ier}} between 1810 and 1822. During twelve years the builders had to very extremely deal with many problems because of the Running at this place. It is thanks to a bell with diving borrowed from the British that the pillars of the bridge could be stabilized. It counts seventeen Arche S (many letters in the name of Napoleon Bonaparte). On the sides, each brick pile is raised of a white medallion in the honor of the emperor. It carries also small the Armoiries of the city (three interlaced crescents). This bridge was only until 1965.

; Course of Intendance It connects the place of the Comedy to the Gambetta place. With the Georges-Clemenceau course and the alleys of Tourny, it forms a Triangle whose center is the place of the Great men, triangle called by of Bordeaux the " triangle of Gold " since the most prestigious stores of the city are gathered there. The layout of the course of the Intendance corresponds to that of the ditches north of the first enclosure strengthened of the city, at the 4th century.

At the 11th century, the Of Bordeaux one fill these ditch S and create a street to which they give the name of " ditches of Campaure". Thereafter this street still changed several times of name: " ditches of Intendance" in 1707, " Marat" ditches; under the Revolution.

; Cathedral Saint-Andrew and Turn Pey-Berland Name of the archbishop of the city in 1430 (death in 1458) which created the first Université of Bordeaux about 1440. It is buried behind the Master furnace bridge of the cathedral.

Devoted by the pope Urbain II in 1096, the cathedral is built on a plan in Latin Croix with single Nef of 124 meters length, 18 m of width to the transept, 23 m in height in the nave and 29 m in the chorus. Conceived to have four Bell-tower S, two only have their arrow (Vital-Carles side street) because one quickly realizes that the cathedral is too heavy for the ground Marécage ux and is inserted. The construction of the two other bell-towers is then abandoned. First Romance building of the 11th century it remains only the interior walls of the nave.

The door Royale (first half of the 13th century) is a Gothic good example (flashovers decorated with statues of the Apôtre S; tympanum with the Last Judgment). The tympanum of the Northern gate (14th century) is decorated of three registers of Bas relief S representing the Cène, the Ascension and the Triumph of the Redeemer. The bedside and the Transept go back to.

Among the events related to this building there is the marriage of Aliénor of Aquitaine with Louis VII, future king de France, in 1137. The cathedral is classified with the world heritage UNESCO since 1998.

The Turn Pey-Berland , isolated from the remainder of the building, was built between 1440 and 1450. It is quadrangular with buttresses, a gallery external and an octagonal arrow with the top, a statue of Notre-Dame of Aquitaine carried out in 1862 and restored lately.

; Church Holy-Cross On the site of a founded Abbey at the 7th century, destroyed by the Buckwheats, rebuilt by the Carolingian then destroyed by the Norman in 845 and 864. The old abbey one of the Benedictines built between XIIe and the 13th century remain only the walls of the Nef and some vestiges of furniture. Indeed the church was almost entirely rebuilt by Paul Abadie at the 19th century, which added on the left a symmetrical Clocher with the original of the frontage.

On the frontage of Romance style Saintonge board, the carved gates represent avarice and the lust. Inside is a Orgue carried out in 1774 by Dom Bedos of Those. Old the Couvent Bénédictin shelters today the École of the fine arts of Bordeaux.

; Basilica Saint-Michel (Meynard place) Gothic church of style blazing built between the end of. The pulpit is of Feyneau and represents holy Michel embanking the dragon. The stained glasses were destroyed at the time of the Bombardement S in 1940. Bell-tower isolated from 114 meters in height, built at the 15th century. In 1881 was discovered a Cimetière Gallo-Roman and Catacombes under the tower. Classified historic building.

; Place Chain It is built consecutively with the events of 1675. Between the alleys of Tourny and the market of the Great men.

; ; Church Our-Dame The church Notre-Dame (Saint-Dominique before the Legal settlement), was built by Pierre Duplessy-Michel (1684-1707). It is inspired by the church of Gesù to Rome. Its frontage is baroque, of style Jesuit. It is classified historic building. It has a remarkable Acoustique from where the high number of Concert S organized in this place. One can see there six tables of the painter André Jean, in religion known as: the Brother Andre, gone back to 1712,1714,1718,1731,1732 and 1735. One finds low-reliefs, a high altar out of white marble due to Peru (1759) and grids in Wrought iron around the chorus due to Moreau (1780).

Its Cloître is the Cour Mably . Built in 1684 in the fields of the architect Michel Duplessy, this building is the second Couvent Jacobins. First is destroyed in 1678. From 1797 to 1885 it is occupied by military Handling. As from 1886 it is renovated and transformed into municipal Bibliothèque.

It also sheltered the Musée Antiquité S to leave 1887. The presence in these places of the Regional court of the Court of Auditors is very recent, 1994.

; Place Parliament Born under the name of place from the Royal Market, it is renamed place of Freedom to the Revolution. Scheduled Style Louis XV.

The buildings which border it, date from first half of the 18th century. The frontages are very richly decorated. They are ordered out of spans built on three levels with hierarchy of bays, horizontally separated by a set of stringcourses punctuated from Mascaron S and of fasten. They are surmounted balustrades. The central fountain dates from the Second Empire. The ground, remade in 1980, is composed of large gilded limestone flagstones.

; Palate Rohan (seat of the current town hall) Old Palate archiépiscopal, built between 1771 and 1784. It is the Archevêque Ferdinand Maximilien Mériadec de Rohan which gives him its name since the palate was built with its request even if it did not live there. Rohan starts by making demolish the old buildings close to the cathedral then the old archbishop's palace. It obtains from the king Louis XV, in 1771, the authorization to build a palate worthy of him by selling 30 hectares of marshy grounds located at side. Joseph Etienne is the prmier architect, he will be replaced in 1776 per Richard Bonfin. The sior Poirier is the section engineer. In 1780, the palate is almost finished but Monseigneur de Rohan is named archbishop of Cambric. He will finish his career as chaplain of the Joséphine empress.

He became the Town hall of Bordeaux in 1835 after having been imperial residence of Napoleon 1st. Completed in 1786 by Etienne and Bonfin. On the two sides of the court of the low buildings connect the main building to a colonnade. The posterior frontage is prolonged by two house S low with Balustre S whose bays are surmounted by Guirlande S.

In spite of modifications, the interior preserved large the Escalier of honor and a succession of living rooms at the ground floor with woodworks and Trompe-l'oeil. Two decorations (an more ancient pompéien and) evoke the refinement of the interiors of Bordeaux of the 18th century.

; Gallien palate, last vestige of the Gallo-Roman time The Amphithéâtre says Palais Gallien owes its name with the emperor Gallien, who reigned from 253 to 268.

This building is however undoubtedly former. The Gallo-Roman city of Burdigala, capital of the province of Aquitaine, knew its first boom in the middle of the 2nd century of our era. The amphitheater, built in edge of the city, could accommodate on its steps of wood 15.000 people. it was burned in 276 during the cruel invasions. He also suffered from major destruction at the time of the Révolution. The building is classified historic building. There remain only some spans and arcades, enclosed in urban fabric. Part of the monument is visible since the streets of the Doctor Albert-Barraud, Emile-Fourcand or of the Palate-Gallien.

; The street Holy-Catherine Principal street of Bordeaux, it is longest Mall of Europe.

Until 1772, close to the place of the Comedy, was the Door Médoc. Since the Gallery Of Bordeaux carried out in 1833 by Durand one sees the Porte Dijeaux whose name is in connection with the Temple of Jupiter which was drawn up on this site at the time Gallo-Roman. The name comes from the deformation of the Gascon " De Jòu" (of Jupiter) which is the traditional language of Bordeaux.

; Place victoire At the other end of the street Holy-Catherine the Door of the Victoire is.

When Tourny removed the medieval doors, it to wish to replace the four unpleasing towers flanking the old Gothic door, the door Saint Julien going back to 1302 (which had taken its name of a close Hôpital created in 1231 to look after leprous and pestiferous) which opened, in the south of the holy street Catherine, on current Place of the Victoire, where formerly met the two roads of the Languedoc and Spain by true a Triumphal arch, to the image of the size of the Capital of the Guyenne.

June 8th, 1748 was undertaken its construction by Portier.

It took the name of door of Aquitaine the November 18th 1753 in order to honor the second wire with the Dauphine, the duke of Aquitaine Xavier de France which had just been born.

The door of Aquitaine is decorated, on a side, royal weapons in a bivalvular shell and of marine Gods intertwining the escutcheon; other, the weapons of the city emerging of a cut on which fall down Fruit S and Fleur S. It is made into beautiful stone of Saint-Macaire (stone which becomes hard and dew), bored of a arcade of more than eleven meters in height and five meters broad, decorated embossings in projections. After the Second world war), it took the name of Door of the Victoire.

In the center of the street Holy-Catherine the place Saint-Project (bishop auvergnat died into 674) is. The Croix of crossroads was restored in 1977; it was in the center of a Cimetière since 1392. The church was in the south of this place and there remains the tower bell-tower about it. The fountain was carried out about 1715.

; Carry Cailhau (place of the Palate)

It belonged to the rampart S of the city. At the 10th century, the place of the Palate bordered the Palate of Ombrière, residence of the dukes of Guyenne. Future king de France, Louis VII, remained there at the time of his passage to Bordeaux for his marriage with Aliénor of Aquitaine. At the 13th century, the palate was replaced by another. As from 1462, the Parlement of Bordeaux sat there. Devastated by several Fire S (1597, 1704), it was demolished in 1800, thus allowing the opening of the current street of the Palate of Ombrière. At the bottom of the place of the Palate draws up the Porte Cailhau . Perhaps its name evokes the stone X, called " calhaus" in Gascon, which was accumulated with its feet by the Garonne and which were used to probably ballast the Navire S. Plus, it evokes the middle-class big family of Bordeaux medieval of Cailhau which gave several mayors to the city (XIIIe - XIVe centuries).

Raised in a Gothic style Rebirth (Machicolation, 35 height meters acute roofs, attic windows, lanterns) at the 15th century, in remembering the victory gained in 1495 by Charles VIII with Fornoue, it acted as Triumphal arch and defensive door (presence of a niche to the effigy of the king).

Classified historic building. Restored at the 19th century (1822), the Bas relief S damaged are with the Museum of Aquitaine.

; The Large Bell, second remaining door of the old medieval enclosure It is one of the rare civil monuments (with the Cailhau door) which the city preserves of the Moyen-âge. It has just been restored. It is the Beffroi of old the Town hall; it is reproduced besides on the Armoiries of the city. It was built at the 15th century on the remainders of the old Saint-Éloy Door of the 13th century (leant with the Saint-Éloi church of the 12th century). It is made up of two circular towers 40 meters height connected by a central building. In the beginning there were six crenelated towers. The bell is run in 1775 by Turmel and it weighs 7.800 kg. The clock is produced in 1759 in the fields of the Larroque mathematician.

; The Saint-Éloi Church Since its provision of an association close to the fraternity Saint-Magpie-X by the mayor Alain Juppe, the monument is in the center of a polemic. December 10th, 2002, the administrative court of Bordeaux cancelled the deliberation taken on January 28th, 2002 concerning this provision. The judgment was confirmed in Administrative court of call on April 27th, 2004. Lastly, the Appeal of this " Association Saint-Éloi" church; was rejected by the Council of State on March 2nd, 2005. The legal decisions were not carried out yet and the church remains the seat of the catholic traditionalists of Bordeaux. February 1st, 2007 puts a final point at the polemic: the Ricard cardinal allots to the Institute of Good Pasteur, whose superior restored the church, the Saint-Éloi parish.

; The frontage of the quays of left bank, more particularly the place of Bourse Realized under the intendance of Stopping by the architect of the king, Jacques Angel Gabriel, between 1730 and 1775, the place of the Stock Exchange is the first breach in the rampart S of the Middle Ages and is intended to serve of sumptuous ECRIN for the equestrian Statue, destroyed with the Revolution, of the king de France Louis XV. It is inaugurated in 1749, symbol of the prosperity of the city. Successively called Royal place, place of Freedom during the Revolution, places imperial under Napoleon {{Ier}}, then again Royale place with the Restauration. In 1848, with the fall of Louis-Philippe Ier, it becomes place of the Stock Exchange.

The Boucher intendant wants to open the city on the river. It wishes to modernize Bordeaux and offer a more accessible face of the city abroad which comes by Right Bank from the the Garonne. One removes part of the walls which girdle Bordeaux and one builds a Royale place. A equestrian Statue of the king Louis XV is placed in its center.

With the Revolution the statue is replaced by a " tree of Liberté". It takes the name of " Place Impériale" at the time of the arrival of Napoleon {{Ier}}. In 1828, under the Restoration, the city raises a modest fountain, in the shape of pink column of Marbre surmounted by a white capital and a sphere, with the site of the equestrian Statue disappeared with the Révolution. It is replaced by current the fountain of the Three Graces in 1869 (the empress Eugenie, the Reine Victoria and Isabelle II of Spain) of Visconti (1865)

This place is one of the works most representative of the French traditional architectural art of the 18th century. In north the Palate was held of the Stock Exchange (current Chamber of commerce and of the Industry of Bordeaux and office of the Post office) and in the south the Hotel of the Farms (current Interregional Direction of the Douane Indirect S and Droits who shelters in his center the Museum of the Customs). This last is carried out by Jacques Ange Gabriel and the Sculpture S represent Minerve protecting arts and Mercure supporting the trade from the city.

The pediments of the other buildings and the Mascaron S are carved by Verbeckt, Vernet and Prome. The pediments represent: size of the princes, Neptune opening the trade, the junction the Garonne - the Dordogne, Time discovering the Truth.

The Mascaron S are bearded men and young girls. The dial of the clock is of Hustin, a faience manufacturer of Bordeaux and the interior is composed of tables and tapestries of the Gobelins.

; Church Saint-Pierre (Saint-Pierre place) The Saint-Pierre place did not exist time of the Gallo-Roman ones. It was formerly the entry of the inner harbor of the city. The church Saint-Pierre is built on the northern wall of the old channel of passage. It was built at the 15th century and was altered mainly at the 19th century but the blazing Gothic gate of style, the southern door and the chorus are of origin.

; Small Labottière hotel The small Labottière hotel is a private mansion located at two steps of the Public garden. It constitutes a remarkable example of neo-classic architecture of the 18th century. Classified historic building, it was built between 1783 and 1788 by the architect Etienne Laclotte for Etienne Labottière. The hotel was the subject of a restoration in the taste of the time.

; Saint-Seurin church with site paléochrétien It is oldest church of Bordeaux, dedicated to Saint Seurin which was bishop of the city. Its construction goes back to the beginning of the 6th century, but it will be Basilique only in 1873. The building is classified historic building and registered with the World heritage of UNESCO. The church shelters a Porche 11th century decorated with capital X, a Chevet and a Transept of the 12th century, a Nef of the 13th century as of the Chapelle S Des. One finds there also a Crypte 11th century lodging the tomb Saint Extremely as well as Sarcophage S Mérovingiens. The site also includes vast a Nécropole Christian whose burials spread out 4th century at the 18th century. The Basilique Saint-Seurin was on the way of the pilgrims of Saint-Jacques-to-Compostelle who stopped there with the Moyen-âge to venerate the Bâton Saint Martial, seeing the Olifant Roland, and the Relique S of Seurin saint and Fort saint.

; Church Saint-Bruno. Cardinal François of Sourdis had, since 1611, facilitated creation of convent of Carthusian monk (order already come with Bordeaux in 1381 (on marshes located at the doors of the city, district which will take the name of Chartrons), after being driven out by the Guerre One hundred Year old of the Périgord where it was installed), thanks to the gift of a monk, Blaise de Gascq. Opened since 1611, the monastery accepted a Chapelle become church dedicated to Saint Bruno (founder of the Order), devoted on March 29th, 1620 by the cardinal of Sourdis.

The frontage is inspired by the Italian style and tends towards the baroque, just like the chorus.

In a forty six meters length single nave, are joined together fort beautiful works of art of which several were ordered by the Cardinal of Sourdis to Bernin father and wire.

The Retable of the chorus is decorated with marbles removed with the Turks who intended them for Mecque.

The retable of the high altar is decorated with a " Assomption" had with Philippe de Champaigne (1673).

On the two sides of the furnace bridge, marble statues of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, known as " Bernin".

Various fabrics of, a beautiful portrait of Holy Bruno (17th century), woodworks of the 17th century.

The nave arched in cradle of 46m length is decorated frescos in Trompe-l'oeil (17th century) due to the Italian painter Gian Antonio Berinzago describe an ancient architectural decoration including/understanding decorations of a palate capped with busts.

On the left chorus, in an arched room, is the tomb of Sourdis (1691).

The garden of the Carthusian monks became, with the Révolution, the central cemetery of the city (Cimetière of Chartreuse).

; Synagog of Bordeaux The Synagog of Bordeaux (36, Cours Pasteur) was built on a level néo- romano - Byzantine at the end of the 19th century, the synagog of the street Causserouge having been destroyed by a Incendie.

Work of the architect Charles Durand, this large building of inspiration Gothic and Eastern, finished in 1882, is the seat of the community metropolis of the Judaism sépharade from Spain. It was transformed into place of detention of at the end of 1943 until the Release (furniture destroyed or plundered in November 1943, but intact architecture). Couvrement of the building is riveted a metal sheet structure carrying carried out by the workshops Gustave Eiffel; it makes it possible to release an interior space of great width. The metal framework is dissimulated under a painted stucco work.

It shelters monumental a Menorah (candlestick with seven branches) of more than ten meters height.

; Fountains Amédée-Larrieu fountain: Group of three fountains set up in 1901 by the architects Edouard Bauhain and Barbaud, with the sculptor Raoul Verlet, using funds bequeathed to the city by Eugene Larrieu for this destination. The public garden is inaugurated on May 15th, 1902.

Modern architecture

; Labor market The construction of a building reserved for the trade unions was entrusted by Adrien Marquet, mayor, with the architect Jacques D' Welles. The Labor market was inaugurated on May 1st, 1938. The building combines functional architecture and massive time with a certain refinement. The frontage is decorated with a low-relief of Alfred Janniot.

The access on the first floor is representative of the style art déco of Bordeaux. The ironwork, the slopes, the glosses are remarkable. On both sides of the theater two parts are decorated frescos carried out by artists of Bordeaux: of Buzon, Roganeau, Cave and Bégaud. The scene of the theater is decorated of a fresco of Jean Dupas representing an allegory of Bordeaux. On the right-sided, Jean Dupas carried out a large more conventional fresco. Unfortunately, this room, floret of the building, are occupied today by hideous hutments which prevent from appreciating elegance of it.

; Law courts conceived by the architect Richard Rogers

; Bridge of Aquitaine

; Stage Chaban-Delmas

Green areas

• Public garden of Bordeaux and Botanical garden of Bordeaux

With the Revolution one tears off there the Fleur S and the Arbuste S to put Pelouse S at it, not preserving that large the Arbre S. the garden is used then as framework with the official ceremonies and the pastoral Bal S. In 1856 one decides to renovate it. Footbridges (of Fischer and Escarpit) are installed width of the crinolines. Armand and Guibert create a Landscaped garden the. Buguet remakes the terrace and establishes a basin, the grids of the garden are remelted (those of origins remain between the street Ducau and the Longchamp place like on the place of Field-of-March). Statues are placed on the esplanade of Buguet: Diane (Gabies), Youth and Dream (Granet), Maxime Lalanne (a aquafortist of Bordeaux), Rosa Happiness (animalist painter). At the end of the terrace the hotel of Lisleferme of the Bonfin architect is. It shelters current Muséum of Natural history.

In 1970 is taken again the grids of the course of Verdun (7500 gold sheets were necessary to the craftsmen Bernard, Blot and Lorette).

• Wood of Bordeaux

• Floral garden
• Banks of the Garonne
• Park Of Bordeaux
• Park River
• Botanical garden
• Garden of the Town hall
• Garden of Béchade
• Gardens of the Ladies of the Faith
• Vinet Public garden: first contemporary public garden made up of a vertical garden located in full heart of Bordeaux
• Public garden Jean Office

Museums

• Site of the Museums of Aquitaine
• Site of the Town hall

• Museum of the Art schools: Paintings of Delacroix, Renoir, Matisse, Bouguereau, Ruben, Véronèse, Titien, Picasso…

• Museum of Aquitaine

With héritié of the collections of the old concise Museum created about 1783 by the Academy of Bordeaux at the request of the intendant Dupre de Saint-Maur in order to gather the Roman vestiges put at the day by important work of town planning undertaken as of the 16th century and, mainly, at the 18th century.

Since 1962, evolved to a museum of Histoire, Archéologie and regional Ethnographie: vestiges of the prehistoric time , Roman antiquities and paléo-Christian women of the city of Burdigalia, collections medieval, ethnographic collections, etc

• Museum of decorative Arts

Placed in the Hotel of Lalande, built in 1779 by the architect of Bordeaux Etienne Laclotte, for the Pierre member of Parliament of Raymond de Lalande. Shelter rich person collections of decorative Arts French, and more particularly of Bordeaux, as well as collections of Peinture S, Gravure S, Miniature S, Sculpture S, Mobilier, Céramique, Verrerie, Orfèvrerie, etc

• Natural history museum of Natural history

• Center of contemporary visual arts of Bordeaux (CAPC)

Collection, made up of a thousand of works resprésentant 140 artists.

• Musée of Chartrons

• National museum of the Douanes
• international Conservatoire of the Plaisance
• Vinorama
• Musée Goupil
• Put of Goya

Last residence of the painter Francisco Goya, who settled in Bordeaux in 1824 to flee the absolutism of Ferdinand VII and which there mouruten 1828. Exposure of works of the artist. Spanish arts center of Bordeaux.

• Cape Sciences

• Center Jean Moulin: Museum and information center of the Second world war
• Museum of Art believed
• Museum of Ethnography of Bordeaux 2 (MEB)
• Conservatory of the air and the space of Aquitaine (CAEA)
• House of the trades of the Printing works
• Museum of the Télécoms of Aquitaine

Demonstrations

• Living room of the Antique dealers (January)

• Carnival of the two banks (at the beginning of March)

• Fair with the pleasures (Fun fair, three last weeks of October and the first three weeks of March on the Place of the Quincunxes)
• Stopover of the book (at the end of March/at the beginning of April)
• International exhibition of Bordeaux (in May)
• Uproars (Festival of the tale) (mid-June, district Saint-Michel)
• Vinexpo
• Festival of the wine (Place of the Quincunxes), 4 days of the Thursday to Sunday, at the end of June, even years )
• Festival of the river (4 days of the Thursday to Sunday, at the end of June, odd years , in alternation with the festival of the wine): Boat X and musics of the world
• Épicuriales (fifteen days, at the end of June): gastronomy and concerts
• Festival European of the Short film
• Let us dance on the quays (July-August, on the quays)
• International festival of the cinema to female the (October)
• Novart (November)
• Marché of Christmas (December)

Sports events

• international Jumping of Bordeaux (February)
• Semi-marathon of Bordeaux

Festivals of music

• International festival of Organ
• International festival of Classical music
• Bordeaux Jazz Festival
• Festival Bordeaux Rock'n'roll

Cinemas

Bordeaux is very well equipped with regard to the cinema. One finds: UGC Cinécité close to the Gambetta Place.

small Trianon Jean Vigo is specialized in the cinema of Art and test. The Utopia is a Cinéma independent made up of five rooms integrated in the old church Saint-Siméon (Saint-Pierre district) closed into the worship since the French revolution. It has the statute " art and essai" and " cinema of recherche" and generally presents many recent films in original version.

One can also find in Bordeaux the Multiplexe S Méga CGR and the Mégarama , on Right Bank of the Garonne, close to the old station of Orleans (historic building).

The city at one time had many cinemas now disappeared: each barrier had of them one of which only remains the Festival. There were Rex with the barrier of the Medoc (copy of Large Rex of Paris), the Eden, Alhambra, the Club and the Intendance, the World one, Marivaux and the French in particular. Recently, Gaumont located Georges-Clémenceau course was demolished, the Gaumont is now located at Talence.

Sports

• Basketball: Since the disappearance of the Waïti Bordeaux (female club of the elite), the club headlight of the city is JSA Bordeaux in NM1 (the 3rd male division)
• Football: the team of the Of Gironde of Bordeaux evolving/moving in League 1 of the Championship of France of football
• Hockey: Bordeaux the Gironde Hockey 2000
• Rugby:
• Union athletic stage of Bordeaux-club Bordeaux-Bègles the Gironde, evolving/moving as a Pro D2 of the Championship of France of Rugby
• CA Lormont-Cenon Right Bank, evolving/moving into Federal 2 of the Championship of France of Rugby
• Handball:
• Of Gironde of Bordeaux HBC, male team evolving/moving in Division 2
• CA Bèglais Handball, female team evolving/moving in Division 1
• SA Mérignac Handball, female team evolving/moving in Division 1
• US Mios-Biganos Handball Club, female team evolving/moving in Division 1
• Center of veil of Bordeaux-Lake
• Tennis: Villa Primrose: VillaPrimrose.com
• Golf: Golf of Bordeaux to Bordeaux-Lake
• Formation:
• the CREPS (Regional center of Physical education and Sporting) of Talence is one of the oldest centers of the kind in France. Created in March 1941, it in the beginning is intended for the training of the teachers in EPS, and in 1985 it is transformed into CPEF (Permanent Center of Drive and Formation), currently famous in high level Pole, or more usually " Pole France. The CREPS of Talence is very famous for its education level, with in particular 8 Handball euses evolving/moving in female Elite (Division 1), of the Cycliste S professionals (Fabien Sanchez, runner of the FDJ, or Matthieu Ladagnous, present at last OJ of Athens), but also of the Volley professional eurs, the center of drive of the team of female France of Escrime, etc

Others

The Bibliothèque of the district Mériadeck of a surface of 26.000 m2 (7 200 m2 accessible to the users) is one of the largest public libraries of France. It stores nearly a million documents in tens of kilometers of shelves, including more than 300.000 pertaining to the funds patrimonial (rare, invaluable, old).

Gastronomy

Personalities

Famous people born in Bordeaux

• the Anonymous of Bordeaux, pilgrim who went to Jerusalem at the 4th century
• Ausone, poet Latin, prefect of Gaules, proconsul d' Asie, born in 309
• Richard II from England, King d' Angleterre, born on January 6th, 1367
• Michel de Montaigne, politician, philosophical, born the holy on February 28th, 1533
• Jeanne de Lestonnac, niece of Michel de Montaigne, founder of the Company of Notre-Dame, born on December 27th, 1556
• Jean Chevillard, archivist, born in 1618
• Gabriel de Guilleragues, diplomat and writer born on November 18th, 1628
• Pierre Mitchell, founder of the first glassmaking of Bordeaux, manufactures royal, born in 1687
• François Bigot, last Intendant of News-France born in January 1703
• Etienne Marie Antoine Champion of Nansouty, general, rider of the Emperor, born on May 30th, 1768
• Pierre Rode, type-setter and violonist, born on February 16th, 1774
• Pierre-Alfred Ravel, actor, born in 1814
• Charles Lévêque, philosopher, born in 1818
• Rosa Bonheur, painter, born on March 16th, 1822
• Hortense Schneider, professional singer, born on April 30th, 1833
• Aurélien Scholl, journalist, writer, humorist, born on July 13rd, 1833
• Charles Lamoureux, leader, born on September 28th, 1834
• Edouard Column, leader, born on July 23rd, 1838
• Odilon Redon, painter, draftsman and engraver, born on April 22nd, 1840
• Gaston Schnegg, sculptor, born in 1866
• Sylvain Eugene Raynal, born on March 3rd, 1867, commander de Fort of Be worth
• Maurice Dubois, painter, born on June 4th, 1869
• Charles Tournemire, organist, improviser, type-setter, born on January 22nd, 1870
• Jean Roger-Ducasse, type-setter, born on April 18th, 1873
• Albert Marquet, painter, born on March 27th, 1875
• Raoul Laparra, type-setter, born on May 13rd, 1876
• Paul Jacquier, minister, born on March 26th, 1879
• Joseph-Ermend Bonnal, organist and type-setter, born on July 1st, 1880
• Jacques Thibaud, violonist, born on September 27th, 1880
• Jean Deceived, artist decorator, born on February 21st, 1882
• François-Maurice Roganeau, painter, born the 1883
• André Lhote, painter, theorist of art, teacher, born on July 5th, 1885
• François Mauriac, writer and journalist, born on October 11th, 1885
• Henry Barraud, type-setter, born on April 23rd, 1900
• Henri Sauguet, type-setter, born on May 18th, 1901
• Jean Anouilh, dramatic author, born on June 23rd, 1910
• Jacques Ellul, philosopher, sociologist and theologist, born on January 6th, 1912
• Rene Clement, scenario writer, born on March 18th, 1913
• Chaval, draftsman, born on February 10th, 1915
• Danielle Darrieux, actress, born on May 1st, 1917
• Xavier Arsene-Henry, architect born in 1919
• Marcel Merkès, singer of operetta, born on July 7th, 1920
• Jean Lacouture, journalist, historian, writer, born on June 9th, 1921
• Edouard Molinaro, scenario writer, born on May 13rd, 1928
• Marcel Upstream, singer, born on April 1st, 1929
• Jean-Joseph Sanfourche, painter and sculptor, born on June 25th, 1929
• Georges Descrières, actor and movie actor, born on April 15th, 1930
• Alain Aslan, sculptor, draftsman, born on May 23rd, 1930
• Sempé, draftsman, born on August 17th, 1932
• Philippe Sollers, writer, criticizes literary, born it November 28th, 1936
• Boris Cyrulnik, psychoanalyst, psychologist and writer, born on July 26th, 1937
• Serge LAMA, singer, born on February 11th, 1943
• Christian Morin, organizer, actor, born on March 2nd, 1945
• Sophie Davant, journalist and TV host, born on May 19th, 1963
• Jose Cubero Sánchez, known as El Yiyo, matador born on April 16th, 1964
• Pierre Palmade, humorist, born on March 23rd, 1968
• Melanie Coste, pornographic actress, born on March 31st, 1976
• Florent Serra, tennis player, born on February 28th, 1981

Famous residents

• Francisco Goya (1748-1826), painter and Spanish engraver, died in Bordeaux

• Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843), German poet
• Pedro Mariano de Goyeneche (1773-1844), Spanish lawyer, Judge of the Royal Courts of Cuzco and Lima
• Ferdinand-Maximilien-Mériadec de Rohan-Guéméné. Archbishop and creator of the Palate Rohan.
• Antoine Renard (1825-1872), tenor
• SEM (1863-1934), illustrator and caricaturist
• Aristides de Sousa Mendes (1885-1954), diplomatic Portuguese, delivered visas with the refugees wishing to flee France in 1940
• Flora Tristan (1803-1844), militant feminist and socialist

Twinnings and cooperation agreements

• Twinning

• Cooperation agreements

Media

• France 3 Bordeaux daily proposes a local newspaper on Bordeaux and its agglomeration. France 3 Bordeaux belongs to France 3 Aquitaine. Addresses: 137 rue Ernest Renan.
• TV7 Bordeaux is another local television of Bordeaux. It is installed which occurred Thiers and belongs to the Western Southern group.
• Southern West appearing with the format tabloïd and 7/7.
• Bordeaux 7 free newspaper 7/7.

Radios of Bordeaux

• Wit FM (Pop Music, Rock'n'roll, R&B, Dance) - 100.8

• Of wildfowl (New scene Of Bordeaux, Appartenant has Radio Nova) - 94.9
• Campus FM (alternative Music) - 88.1
• the Key of the Waves (no specific kind) - 90.1
• RIG (Music of the World, alternative Musique) - 90.7
• Black Box (Hip-Hop, R' B, Soul, Funk, Disco, Reggae, Ragga) - 103.7
• RCF Bordeaux (Religious Programs) - 88.9
• France Blue the Gironde (Information, Pop music) - 100.1
• Radio TRG (Pop music) - 92.6
• GOLD FM: Official radio of Of Gironde of Bordeaux (Football, infos, music…) - 103.3