Bordeaux: A City Uncorked -- The GuardianTwenty years after she first visited the city, Natasha Edwards returns to Bordeaux and discovers a metropolis transformed. Wine still infuses its every nook and cranny, but a revitalised riverside has injected life back into the city centre.
As the tram glides along the riverside, it stops for a moment by the "mirror", the flat pool of water on the broad quayside. Sometimes fountain jets are turned on and children dash between them. With these switched off, the water perfectly reflects the beautiful semicircular Place de la Bourse, designed in the 1730s by the royal architect, Jacques-Ange Gabriel. I can't help thinking the city is, quite rightly, admiring itself.
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My Comment: An excellent description of Bordeaux
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