Bordeaux is the chief town of the Gironde department, lying on the Garonne river in south-west France and near the Atlantic. It is an estuary city, the fringe between Europe and the New World. This invitation to travel is expressed everywhere in the city’s moving panorama; everything favours circulation of people, ideas and goods. An important trading centre, Bordeaux is also classed as a city of art and history. While also having a highly diversified industry, it is one of the major wine producing centres in France and maintains a network of some twenty partner towns throughout Europe and the world. The Europe Prize was awarded to it following the creation of the very first “House of Europe and overseas countries”, the first not only in France but also in Europe, inaugurated in June 1956 following contacts established with the embassies of Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy and Switzerland in both cultural and economic matters.
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