A grand early 17th-century château built for the Duke of Épernon, a favourite of Henri III, in the walled town of Cadillac on the Garonne. Its rooms keep their painted ceilings and eight monumental carved fireplaces; later it became a women's prison.
Cadillac is in the sweet wine country of the Bordeaux region, opposite Sauternes and Barsac.
The romantic ruins of a Benedictine abbey founded in 1079 in the vineyards of the Entre-deux-Mers, on the route to Santiago de Compostela.
Bordeaux's grand 18th-century Place de la Bourse faces the Garonne river, and in front of it the Miroir d'eau, the world's largest reflecting pool, a…
The free-standing bell tower of Bordeaux's Saint-André Cathedral, built in the 15th century apart from the church so its bells would not shake the bu…
A medieval hilltop village of honey-coloured stone and steep cobbled lanes, surrounded by some of the world's most famous vineyards, a UNESCO World H…
The largest underground church in Europe, carved out of the solid limestone hill beneath Saint-Émilion in the 11th and 12th centuries.
A small decorated cave near Bourg in the Gironde, with engravings of horses, ibex and mammoths around 30,000 years old, among the oldest cave art in …
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