City Guide – Bordeaux, France

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Lyon City Tour

Bordeaux, known as “Port of the Moon” is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Stone Bridge, with its 17 arches, crosses the Garonne, offering pedestrians a lovely view over the docks and harbor. Bordeaux has been classified a “City of Art and History” and is home to one of Europe’s largest collection of 18th-Century architecture. During a walking tour our English-speaking guide will reveal its beauty and culture. The historic center of Bordeaux has everything that one would expect of a vibrant modern city, shops, services, big stores, cinemas and lots more, but it has them in the framework of an architectural ensemble of stone buildings most of which date back to well before the twentieth century.

Recommendations for your free time:

• Visit the Cité du vin” (Modern museum” dedicated to wine)
• Shopping street: rue Ste Catherine
• Visit the St André Cathedral and/or Notre Dame
• Walk by the river and the “water mirror” and stop for a glass of wine somewhere
• Bike in the city! There is a bike station 1 minute from the hotel.

While you can always as the Intercontinental Concierge, here are a few recommendations of our own:

• Symbiose (cocktail bar and a restaurant)
• Tentazione (Italian)
• Le Quatrieme Mur (Brewery and Brasserie)
• Chiochio (Italian, wine & food)
• Quanjude (Chinese gastronomy)
• Le Pressoir D’Argent Gordon Ramsay (in the hotel)