Facts About Bordeaux
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Bordeaux is located close to the European Atlantic coast, in the southwest of France and in the north of the Aquitaine region.
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one of Bordeaux’s nicknames is La Belle Endormie, which means Sleeping Beauty.
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Bordeaux’s climate is usually classified as an oceanic climate.
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The region is home to the largest estuary in Europe, the Gironde estuary.
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Bordeaux is home to the longest shopping strip in Europe, Rue Sainte Catherine. Measuring 1.2 kilometers long.
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There are no skyscrapers in Bordeaux.
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Bordeaux is classified as “City of Art and History”.
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Bordeaux is a major center for business in France as it has the fifth-largest metropolitan population in France.
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Bordeaux is twinned with: Bristol, United Kingdom; Lima, Peru; Quebec City, Canada; Porto, Portugal; Los Angeles, United States; Munich, Germany; Ashdod, Israel; Fukuoka, Japan; Bilbao, Spain; Madrid, Spain; Casablanca, Morocco; Wuhan, China; Zahlé, Lebanon & Oran, Algeria
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The city and port of Bordeaux were listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2007.
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Producing 900 million bottles of wine annually from approximately 250,000 acres of vineyard, Bordeaux is France’s largest appellation.
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Male inhabitants are called Bordelais & Female citizens are called Bordelaise.
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Bordeaux is in partnerships with Samsun, Turkey; Riga, Latvia; Kraków, Poland & Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Europe’s longest-span vertical-lift bridge, the Pont Jacques Chaban-Delmas, was opened in 2013 in Bordeaux.
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The city is home to 362 monuments historiques, only beaten by Paris, with some buildings dating back to Roman times.
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Bordeaux is the capital of five cantons and the Prefecture of the Gironde and Aquitaine.
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Bordeaux has the highest number of preserved historical buildings of any city in France.
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Bordeaux has a population of 252,040, as of 2016.
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Around 567 BC the region was the settlement of a Celtic tribe, the Bituriges Vivisci, who named the town Burdigala.
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Since 1947, there have been 4 mayors of Bordeaux: 1947–1995 Jacques Chaban-Delmas; 1995–2004 Alain Juppé; 2004–2006 Hugues Martin; 2006–2019 Alain Juppé & 2019–present Nicolas Florian.