In the glory of its wine and the sophistication of its cooking, the Bordelais is a magnificent gastronomic region and Bordeaux a capital of good living. It has retained, from the time of Louis XIV, a proportioned and classical architecture, found in the countless pale stone châteaux. But Bordeaux also moves to a Latin rhythm. It is a city of food lovers and revellers since its population comes from Aquitaine, that beautiful province that borders Spain. You're closer here to Bilbao and Toulouse than to Paris.

What's more pleasant, after a day of touring the old neighborhoods, than sitting down to a plate of Arcachon oysters at an outdoor café and savoring the briny flavor of the ocean - washing it down with a glass of Graves or Entre-Deux-Mers.

The Gironde is made up of three distinct entities, each with its own heritage: Bordeaux and its region, a piece of the Landes de Gascogne (Médoc, Pays de Buch, Landes de Bordeaux, Bazadais and a piece of the Grande-Lande), and the Guyenne Girondine (Libournais, Entre-deux-Mers).

Whether white, black, green or purple, Périgord is the cradle of humanity

• Introduction
• The medieval town of Brantôme
• Along the water to Bourdeilles
• Towards the Périgueux market
• The Château Route (part 1)
• The Château Route (part 2)
• The country road to the grotto of Villars
• Les Ezies - Discover Cro-Magnon man
• St-Jean-de-Côle - one of the most beautiful villages in France
• The Vézère Valley - in the footsteps of our ancestors
• 6 prehistoric sites to discover
• The Valley of the Dordogne

This département houses two lands, each with a strong personality: Béarn and its mountains; and the Basque country with its shimmering, colorful villages.

Béarn

• Pau

Basque Country

• Introduction
• Bayonne
• Biarritz
• Hendaye
• St. Etienne de Baigorry
• St. Jean de Luz

The land of fortified towns during the Hundred Years War, the territory of the Cathars, a country claimed by both Gascony and Languedoc, a royal holding of Henri IV, crossed by the Bordeaux-Toulouse axis, Lot-et-Garonne has a unique art of living and is best discovered from the water.

Today the Landes region is divided into three distinct areas:

• the coast, which included 106 km of beaches backing onto the dunes and forest
• the Landes de Gascogne nature park (the largest man-made forest in Europe, planted to stop the spread of the marshland).
• and the back country (Chalosse, Tursan, Bas Armagnac) where you will discover the good humor of the Gascons.