Chartrons

A look around

What you’ll be living next to. Swipe through.

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Where it sits

The circle is Chartrons and roughly a 10-minute walk around it.

How far is everything?

From the middle of this area to the city's headline sights — pick your own on the city page and these become your list.

• Place de la Bourse15 min walk1.2 km
• Grand Théâtre15 min walk1.2 km
• Miroir d'eau15 min walk1.3 km
• Saint-Pierre quarter17 min walk1.4 km
• Rue Sainte-Catherine19 min walk1.6 km
• Cathédrale Saint-André22 min walk1.8 km
• Pey-Berland Tower22 min walk1.8 km
• Marché des Capucins27 min walk2.3 km

On your doorstep

What you’re living next to if you stay here.

• 3.La Cité du Vin — A swirling, decanter-shaped museum of wine on the river — immersive, hands-on and global, ending with a tasting in the glass-topped belvedere over the city. The essential stop even if you never leave town for a vineyard.
• 11.The Garonne quays — The reclaimed riverbank runs for kilometres as a promenade of lawns, cycle paths and skateparks past the old warehouses — the city's front garden. Walk or rent a bike from the Miroir up to the Cité du Vin.
• 14.Chartrons & its market — The old wine-merchants' district — antique shops on Rue Notre-Dame, wine cellars, and a Sunday-morning riverside market for oysters and white wine by the water. The most Bordelais way to spend a lazy morning.
• 16.Saint-Émilion — A jewel of a medieval wine town 40 minutes east — cobbled lanes, an astonishing church carved from the rock, and world-famous vineyards all around. The essential Bordeaux day trip.
• 18.Arcachon & the oyster bay — A belle-époque seaside resort on a huge tidal bay — oyster shacks, fine sand, and a boat out to the Île aux Oiseaux. Pair it with the great dune next door.
• 19.Bassins des Lumières — The world's largest digital-art centre, in a colossal WWII submarine base — vast walls and water flooded with projected masterpieces and music. Utterly immersive.