Bordeaux Self Guided Tour of Wine, Wealth and Slave Ships

Look up at a golden facade hiding a secret nobody points out on postcards

Decode why every Bordeaux wine label hides its grape behind a place name instead

Trace a dragon legend that ends with six hostages and a broken promise

Search for a hidden community whose name may still be carved into this gate

Encounter a memorial shaped like a tree that names what this city built its wealth on

Spot why this bell tower stands apart from its own cathedral on purpose

Hear how a king silenced an entire city by taking away its bell

Count the missing piece from a painter's grave that's never been found

Look up at a king whose military triumph ended in the strangest possible way at home

Look up at twelve rooftop statues above a theatre that once governed all of France.

Trace the story of bronze fountains that a foundry worker quietly refused to melt down.

Decode a theatrical façade the Church designed to win back souls it was losing.

See where a thirteen-year-old bride married weeks before becoming Queen of France.

Puzzle over a bell tower that stands strangely apart from the cathedral it belongs to.

Piece together the mystery of a tomb that may or may not hold France's greatest mind.

Pause at a pub that claims a darker past, tied to the region's most feared witch-hunter.

Cross the city's first bridge, where a stray cat once outwitted the devil himself.