Bordeaux

Here you will see how a port building was preserved and adapted for art.

The opera house will serve the route as the place where a parliamentary dispute ended a writer's career as a deputy.

This modern square will explain how an engineering solution became a new way of using the waterfront.

The layout of the house shows how living quarters, an office, and work with barrels fit under one roof.

The ensemble shows how a dispute between a provincial court and a royal official changed the entrance to a port city.

Here you will understand why Bordeaux’s main esplanade repeats the dimensions of a vanished citadel.

Here you will see how a military order became a private concession and a toll-paying city crossing.

The tower will show why freeing the monument from the neighboring houses nearly led to its destruction.

This stop is about one successful renaming that proved stronger than the revolutionary ban.

Here a royal order will run up against a tender that no one wanted to enter.

The city bell will link a revolt, the loss of privileges, and the townspeople’s attempt to learn how to tell time again.

The pavilion will show the result of a transformation in which the architects did not add anything new, but removed a later shell.

The finale will bring together the market gardeners’ nighttime journey, the sale of their harvest, and the return load for the next planting.

This stop will take you beneath the city pavement to a Roman statue and a long-filled-in inner harbor.

The lone arch shows which part of the ceremonial imperial entrance actually remained in stone.

The final stop will explain the gap between the cathedral and its bell tower, which remained without bells for several centuries.

The new church will explain how parishioners preserved the memory of a dismantled church but did not get the square they had planned.

Beneath the ordinary paving lies a long and uneasy history of how the townspeople dealt with the burials they found.