Monument · Bordeaux, France

Saint-Émilion

A monolithic church cut down into the rock, in a village that is the whole appellation's shopfront.

Saint-Émilion is in Bordeaux, and this is Bordeaux — the atlas draws Europe in one projection whose finest unit is about four kilometres, so it maps the town rather than the street. The frame is about 980 km across and 350 km deep at this latitude. Coastline from Natural Earth, public domain. The full map →

Give it half a day · Open year-round · 44.894°N, -0.156°E

Accessibility

Not documented. EuropeDoor holds no step-free access, hearing loop or accessible toilet information for any place, and inventing it would be worse than the gap — the position in full.

Getting there

The TGV network makes Paris–Marseille three hours and Paris–Bordeaux two. All of France →

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Bordeaux · The Loire & the Southwest · France

We do not hold opening hours, prices or a website for this

Those are the three fields that go stale fastest and the three you are most damaged by being wrong about, so this site does not carry them at all rather than carrying an unverified version. Check the operator or the municipality on the day. The estimate of how long to give it, and the season, are editorial judgements and are usually stable.

What happens here

Experiences tied to this place, and how each one is tied to it — standing on it, starting from it, or looking at it.

A small Saint-Émilion cellar

Skip the classified growths and visit a family making 20,000 bottles; you will taste from the barrel and be told the truth about the vintage.

Happens here

Other places in Bordeaux

Place de la Bourse & Miroir d'eau

An 18th-century facade and the world's largest reflecting pool, two centimetres deep.

Square

The record

What this atlas holds about Saint-Émilion, and nothing it does not.

Kind: Monument
Give it: half a day
Season: Open year-round
Where: 44.894°N, -0.156°E
In: Bordeaux