The city started to play a regional role as a major urban center on the fringes of the newly founded Frankish Duchy of Vasconia. In the late sixth century the city re-emerged as the seat of a county and an archdiocese within the Merovingian kingdom of the Franks, but royal Frankish power was never strong. Merovingian tremisses minted in Bordeaux by the Church of Saint-Étienne, late sixth century. Bordeaux is also ranked as a Sufficiency city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network.
In June 2007, the Port of the Moon in historic Bordeaux was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List, for its outstanding architecture and urban ensemble and in recognition of Bordeaux's international importance over the last 2000 years. The metropolis has also received awards and rankings by international organizations such as in 1957, Bordeaux was awarded the Europe Prize for its efforts in transmitting the European ideal. The " Pearl of Aquitaine" has been voted European Destination of the year in a 2015 online poll. īordeaux is an international tourist destination for its architectural and cultural heritage with more than 350 historic monuments, making it, after Paris, the city with the most listed or registered monuments in France. A crossroads of knowledge through university research, it is home to one of the only two megajoule lasers in the world, as well as a university population of more than 130,000 students within the Bordeaux Metropolis.
The link with aviation dates back to 1910, the year the first airplane flew over the city. It is a central and strategic hub for the aeronautics, military and space sector, home to international companies such as Dassault Aviation, Ariane Group, Safran and Thalès. Bordeaux is also one of the centers of gastronomy and business tourism for the organization of international congresses. 2020 census, is the fifth most populated metropolitan council in France after those of Paris, Marseille, Lyon and Lille.īordeaux is a world capital of wine: many castles and vineyards stand on the hillsides of the Gironde, and the city is home to the world's main wine fair, Vinexpo. The Bordeaux Metropolis, with a population of 819,604 at the Jan. 2020 census), the sixth-most populated in France after Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Lille, and Toulouse.īordeaux and 27 suburban municipalities form the Bordeaux Metropolis, an indirectly elected metropolitan authority now in charge of wider metropolitan issues.
The city of Bordeaux proper had a population of 259,809 in 2020 within its small municipal territory of 49 km 2 (19 sq mi), but together with its suburbs and exurbs the Bordeaux metropolitan area had a population of 1,376,375 that same year (Jan. The term "Bordelais" may also refer to the city and its surrounding region. Its inhabitants are called "Bordelais" (masculine) or "Bordelaises" (feminine). It is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the prefecture of the Gironde department. 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.īordeaux ( / b ɔːr ˈ d oʊ/ bor- DOH, French: ( listen) Gascon Occitan: Bordèu Basque: Bordele) is a port city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, Southwestern France.
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