Bordeaux

Bordeaux is a port city located south of France on the bank of the Garonne River, which flows into the Atlantic Ocean at the Bay of Biscay. The city is famous for its red Npivha which mainly manufactured in the city and its environs, the "wine capital" of Bordeaux where he was the first city where red wine is produced in Europe. Arabs have called on behalf of Brdel old and over population of about 1.2 million people today. 

Bordeaux underwent Islamic rule in the Umayyad period and long as this rule for many years. It is today the most famous cities in France at all, for the wine industry, of course, but also for its long history and ancient. Began as a port recourse to the sailors fear of serious cases Nau in the Atlantic Ocean in the winter, and had overflowed swamps, some of which remained until today. Thus, marshy areas after drying turned to very fertile soil was excellent for growing grapes. 

It is known that for Bordeaux where a very large number of palaces of kings and nobles, and stand out against this background that St. Aamilin area. Unlike luxury palaces, they were in the 3 century reception center for refugees and internally displaced people, including Gaul, which is the origin of the French people that we know today. In the long history and ancient Bordeaux suffered many occupations began in Roman times Pontifical, where churches large and distinctive and cathedrals built to purge the city of Vsgaha and Kfarha. And stand out among this large Christian monuments of St. Michel Cathedral, one of the greatest historical buildings of Bordeaux. Then occupied by the Vikings in the ninth century and became an important port where they set off from their expeditions to other areas in southern Europe and North Africa. 

Constitute the city of Bordeaux today the fourth city in the French Republic, a thriving commercial and tourism, and where a number of large, such as St. Catherine Street extended on the mile and more big companies and markets historical is dedicated to pedestrians since the seventeenth century, and is considered the longest market infantry in Europe. In the street, three Lebanese Restaurants, which starts from the famous place de la victoire Bamodha Square, which resembles the ancient Egyptian obelisks, and which is also a large brass turtle and other small, and the street ends at the large opera house. 

On the other Bordeaux city landmarks: the comedy arena, which ends St. Catherine Commercial Street, and Le Grand Théâtre, or Opera, which is located in the place de la Comédie, and Square place de la Bourse, which was built in 1775 building, inspired by Saint-Michel (the majority of the population of the Maghreb Arab descent ), and the market Square daily ancient cathedral and used goods. 

There is also a mirror Fountain (Le Miroir) where this fountain is characterized by three different situations: the water comes out of the holes in the ground to a height of 2 cm, and then stops pumping water and leaves behind a page from the mirror-like water. Then spray the water starts to rise two meters, which is a very wonderful place for children in the summer. 

Can be accessed from Bordeaux to Paris via montparnasse station, a train journey spanning almost three hours and TGV train speed of 300 km per hour.