The history of Bordeaux is one of wine and pink. From the s. III a.C., when it was founded by the Romans began to disfr of a favorable reputation thanks to the vineyards. It is the city of King Henry II of England, that married with Eleonor d' Equitane to control the region of Bordeaux. With the marriage, it took the control and began the height of the wine of Bordeaux in the rest of the world. Now, the wine of the zone is famous and the grapes of are quoted of the world.
Nowadays it is a university city and it has around 600,000 inhabitants. During the turbulent history of France, Bordeaux has been the capital three times: during 1870-71 the Franc war; soon at the beginning of World War I (1914) and later during two weeks in 1940.
Do with Bordeaux which does with its wine, it savors it. Now it classifies it as you would wish his clarete and would be looking for a harvest by far character, and a perfect one finished cleared that leaves him with anxieties of more. Escondido in the South west of France, Bordeaux is a city of imposing century XVIII, a delicious mixture of white stone facades, typical streets paved and elegant avenues. Its reputation to the great university community and the great potential must to go of purchases, and nothing is necessary to say about the incredible nocturnal life that it assures abundant oporutnidades to prove the aforesaid drink.
The Revolution and the Resistance once were strong in Bordeaux and nowadays their museums, sources and seats live to tell to the stories with their forms and figures. But some people come here without exploring the environs… visits the medieval town at the top of the hill of St-Emilion, put on the vineyards, or long sand beaches of the Atlantic coast. The Bassin d'Arcachon also is worth the trouble to be visited, not only like a huge place to also prove ostras but by its sand dune that advances slowly. And yes, it defies what we say to him, subtly waved hills of Médoc and Margaus they are impressive home of some châteaux and quite refrescantes vineyards.