🇫🇷 France
Bordeaux
Bordeaux is the wine capital of the world — the city that defined how the world thinks about wine, the home of the great châteaux (Margaux, Pétrus, Mouton Rothschild, Haut-Brion), and the city that pours the finest Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot from the surrounding Médoc, Saint-Émilion and Pomerol appellations. But Bordeaux is also a UNESCO World Heritage city of exceptional beauty: 18th-century neoclassical stone townhouses lining the Garonne riverfront (the "Crescent"), the Place de la Bourse, the Grand Théâtre, and a city centre that has been traffic-free since 2004. Three days barely scratches the surface.