Bordeaux, Port de la Lune

The historic centre of this port city in south-west France represents an exceptional urban and architectural ensemble, created in the Age of Enlightenment, whose values lasted until the first half of the twentieth century.

Excluding Paris, it is the French city with the most protected buildings. It also sees its historic role recognised as a centre of exchange of influences over more than 2,000 years, particularly since the twelfth century because of links with Great Britain and the Netherlands.

The urban plans and architectural ensembles from the early eighteenth century make the city an exceptional example of classical and neoclassical trends and give it remarkable urban and architectural unity and coherence. Its urban planning represents the success of the philosophers who wanted to make cities a crucible of humanism, universality and culture.

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