A great UNESCO-listed city of art, one of the most famous wine villages in the world and a giant dune facing the ocean: the Gironde offers a complete break, combining heritage, wine and the great outdoors.
The map shows the numbered stops in visiting order, with one colour per day. The line follows the roads where available; otherwise it joins the stops as the crow flies. Distances and times are approximate (by car, without traffic).
Bordeaux: the Port of the Moon and its classical façades, the Cité du Vin, the Musée d'Aquitaine and the Fine Arts Museum.
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.
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Located in Bordeaux, La Cité du Vin is a unique cultural venue devoted to wine as a cultural, universal and living heritage.
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The Musée d'Aquitaine presents the history of Bordeaux and its region, from prehistory to the present day, through its collections of archaeology, history and regional and non-European ethnography.
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Built in 1881, the Bordeaux Fine Arts Museum brings you close to great names of European painting as well as Bordeaux painters from various periods and schools.
View full page →Saint-Émilion, a medieval town in the heart of the vineyards, with its monolithic church and wine estates.
Saint-Émilion is a commune in south-west France, in the Gironde département and the Aquitaine region.
View full page →The Arcachon Bay: the Dune du Pilat, the highest in Europe, the town of Arcachon and its Winter Town, then Cap Ferret, by boat from Arcachon.
Nestled between ocean and forest, the largest dune in Europe proudly overlooks the entrance to Arcachon Bay from its 109 m. The beauty of its landscape, endlessly sculpted by wind and tides, makes it a true wonder of nature, ephemeral and fragile.
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A seaside resort created in the nineteenth century on the shores of the bay, famous for its Ville d'Hiver with extravagant villas nestled in the pine forest.
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The tip of the Gironde peninsula between the Atlantic Ocean and Arcachon Bay, famous for its red-and-brick lighthouse and its oyster huts.
View full page →Spring and autumn are perfect, with the grape harvest in September. Summer is the high season on the Arcachon Bay, which gets very busy. Bordeaux can be visited all year round.
Bordeaux is explored on foot and by tram. Saint-Émilion can be reached by train or by car, in about 40 minutes. Arcachon is served by train; a ferry links Arcachon to Cap Ferret.