Bordeaux: the world capital of wine

UNESCO World Heritage in its entirety, Bordeaux pairs an eighteenth-century historic center with a museum entirely dedicated to the wine that bears its name worldwide.

The center is explored on foot, thanks to the cable car that runs overhead through the UNESCO World Heritage city.

The Place de la Bourse, facing the Garonna river, mirrors itself in the Water Mirror, the world's largest reflecting installation, covering the square with a thin film of water.

Walking along the river, you reach the Cité du Vin, a museum with a sinuous shape dedicated to the history and culture of wine throughout the world.

Continuing toward the center, you visit St. Andrew's Cathedral, where Eleanor of Aquitaine married the future king of France in 1137.

Toward evening, a wine shop in the center proposes a tasting of the region's great wines, produced in the vineyards surrounding the city on all sides.

The Water Mirror at Place de la Bourse drains and fills in regular cycles, creating different reflections of the historic square depending on when you observe it.

The Bordeaux region has over six thousand wine estates: a number that makes it practically impossible for a single visitor to taste them all in a lifetime, let alone in a single day.