For many people, Bordeaux is traditionally associated with vast and renowned countryside vineyards. The popularity of its wines seems to have gradually overshadowed the city itself and its rich cultural heritage, which is unfair; in 2007, 150 hectares in the historic part of the city were included into the UNESCO List of World Heritage Sites. As a result, Bordeaux took second place after Paris in the number of classified sites in France. The town
The Bay of Arcachon. ‘A desert yesterday, a village today and a city tomorrow!’ These words of the first mayor of Arcachon, Alphonse de Lamarck Pleasance, became the motto of the city. May the 2nd 1857 became the official birthday of Arcachon. The city would have remained a desert if Francois Legale hadn’t decided to build a hotel with thermal treatments here in 1823, strange idea as it was to do such a thing