Fort du Hâ
In the center of Bordeaux there is an old fortress called the Fort du Hâ, also known as the Château du Hâ or, as Vauban called it, the “Chasteau du Haa”. Read More …
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Saint André Cathedral in Bordeaux
Bordeaux’s city tourist office is quick to admit that the Cathédrale Saint André cannot compete with the ones in northern France like Amiens, Chartres or Reims, but they say its “heterogeneous Read More …
Monument to the Memory of the Girondins
In the early years of the French Revolution, the Girondins were an important political group in the Legislative Assembly and the National Convention. Many of the Girondins came from Bordeaux, Read More …
Museum of Aquitaine
The Musée d’Aquitaine is a large museum of the history, culture and ethnography of the Aquitaine region, which includes the department of the Gironde and the city of Bordeaux. After Read More …
Through the Looking Glass
In 2014 the Grand-Théâtre in Bordeaux was open all summer for an exposition called Au-delà du miroir, which means “Beyond the mirror” or, as they translated it, “Through the looking Read More …
The National Opera of Bordeaux
Bordeaux is one of six French cities with a ‘National Opera’, the others being Paris, Lyon, Strasbourg, Montpellier and Nancy. As I have noted in one of my Nancy posts, Read More …
From Jeanne d’Arc to Jeanne d’Oc
Somehow I used to think that the cult of Joan of Arc was limited to northern France and was of little interest to the southern half of the country. After Read More …
Contemporary art in Bordeaux
The CAPC is Bordeaux’s Museum of Contemporary Art. The initials CAPC stand for Centre d’Arts Plastiques Contemporains, which was the museum’s official name when it was founded in 1973. They Read More …
Stone of Bordeaux
Bordeaux is only two hours and nine minutes from Toulouse by TGV (“train of great speed”), but the two cities look and feel very different. They are both on the Read More …
Paris tramways T-3a and T-3b
Paris once had a well-functioning system of tramways (aka streetcars), but these were replaced by buses in the 1930s under pressure from the motor vehicle manufacturers and tire companies. The Read More …