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 France. It is the only decorated cave in the Gironde open to the public.
Visits are guided and limited to small groups, so book ahead. The wine villages of Bourg and the Côtes de Bourg are nearby.
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…
The largest underground church in Europe, carved out of the solid limestone hill beneath Saint-Émilion in the 11th and 12th centuries.
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 romantic ruins of a Benedictine abbey founded in 1079 in the vineyards of the Entre-deux-Mers, on the route to Santiago de Compostela.
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.
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