Sights in Bordeaux

The great wall, or Grandes Murailles, is now all that remains of a once Dominican monastery that was built in the 12th-century.

The home and birth place of Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592), he was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance, known for popularising the essay as a literary genre. 

This public park in Bordeaux was created in the 18th century to provide some open space for residents of the city.

The public garden in the city of Bordeaux houses an arboretum, a library and a Natural History Museum.

This square sits in the heart of saint Emilion and is home to the old market hall as well as the entrance to the Eglise Monolithe.

Teich Bird Reserve is 110 hectares of wooded area, reed beds, meadow, saltmarsh and water that has been made into a protected nature reserve, and managed with a view to attracting wild birds so that they can be seen at closer quarters by the public. 

A 'tertre' is a hillock or mound of earth and Saint Emilion has successfully adapted itself by shaping the town around its 'tertres'.

Crossing the Garonne river, the Pont de Pierre or "stone bridge" was the first to span this expanse of river in Bordeaux.