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The Dune of Pilat
Route d'Arcachon à Biscarrosse, 33260 La Teste-de-Buch, France
This exceptional place is a few kilometers south of the Bassin d`Arcachon , or 1 hour drive south-west of Bordeaux. It lies at the entrance to Arcachon Bay in the town of La Teste-de-Buch. This is a sand dune near 4000 years old and knew its size and the view it provides. It measures 2.7 km in ...
Port of the Moon
Bordeaux, France
Located in the historic center of the city of Bordeaux, near the Garonne river, the port of the moon is so called because it consists largely of a curve reminiscent of the crescent moon. It extends from the dock Bacalan than Paludate.
This unique architectural ensemble was created during the ...
Lascaux
Lieu-dit Lascaux, 24290 Montignac, France
Lascaux is located in Montignac Dordogne 45 minutes southwest of Brive-la-Gaillarde and 55 minutes from Perigueux. Discovered by two young children in 1940, this cave is exceptional. It is home to beautiful and huge prehistoric paintings dating from about 17,000 years.
Today the cave is ...
House of La Boétie
Rue de la Boétie, 24200 Sarlat-la-Canéda, France
The native home of Étienne de La Boétie, French writer and poet of the sixteenth century, is located in Sarlat-la-Caneda in the Dordogne 1 hour southwest of Brive-la-Gaillarde.
La Maison de La Boétie, which is originally a hotel, is a beautiful building whose architecture ...
Château de Monbazillac
Le bourg, 24240 Monbazillac, France
Castle Monbazillac named after the town where it is located. It is located about 1:30 east of Bordeaux and 1 hour southwest of Perigueux.
Built in the mid-sixteenth century the castle is a great defensive building on which we can see an elegant combination of elements of medieval and Renaissance. ...
Font-de-Gaume cave
4 Avenue des Grottes, 24620 Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil, France
This cave carved into a limestone massif, is the first decorated with polychrome paintings have been discovered in the Périgord, in 1901. It is located about 1 hour south-west of Brive-la-Gaillarde and 1 hour east of Bergerac, in the village of Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil Dordogne. The tour ...
Pau Castle
2 Rue du Château, 64000 Pau, France
Pau Béarn is located in the southwest of France near the Spanish border and the Atlantic Ocean. Located on a small hill, the castle allowed to control the Gave de Pau, the river running through the city center from the Pyrenees.These are the viscounts of Béarn, at the time of their alliance with ...
Regional Tourism Committee of Aquitaine
Cite Mondiale 23, Parvis des Chartrons • 33074 Bordeaux
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