Chartrons Wine Trade Walk

The Cours Xavier Arnozan holds a wide, straight path lined with tall, pale stone buildings featuring wrought iron balconies. Wealthy merchants built these mansions during the eighteenth century to display their success in the wine trade.…

The CAPC museum occupies a massive, arched stone warehouse that stretches along the Garonne riverfront. Built in eighteen twenty-four, this building once stored colonial goods like sugar, cocoa, and spices arriving from the Caribbean by…

The Temple des Chartrons displays a tall, Neoclassical portico with four massive Corinthian columns that define its street-facing front. Built between eighteen thirty-two and eighteen thirty-five for the city’s prosperous Protestant…

The twin spires of the Eglise Saint Louis des Chartrons reach sixty-four meters into the Bordeaux sky, their sharp, neo gothic profiles dominating the neighborhood. Built in the late nineteenth century, the church sits on the site of a…

The Halle des Chartrons is a long, low structure featuring a distinctive iron and glass roof that spans the entire width of its stone base. Built in eighteen sixty-nine to serve as a covered market, it once housed merchants selling local…

The Musée du Vin et du Négoce occupies a stone townhouse built for a merchant named François Faure in seventeen twenty. Its facade features the sober, balanced lines typical of the city's eighteenth-century trading houses. Bordeaux…

The Quai des Chartrons wears a long, pale limestone facade that faces the Garonne River. Wealthy merchants built these townhouses in the eighteenth century to store barrels of wine destined for the Caribbean and Northern Europe. One…