Garonne River Bank And Place De La Bourse, Bordeaux, France Stock Image

The Garonne rises in the Pyrenees; from the junction with the Canal de Garonne at Castets-en-Dorthe downstream the river forms part of the main waterway route across southern France from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean. At the Pont de Pierre in Bordeaux the river becomes a maritime waterway. On the right you see the square Place de la Bourse, one of the most representative works of classical French architectural art of the eighteenth century. On the left the Pey Berland Church Tower and the Saint Andre Cathedral. In front of this the towers of Porte Cailhau Cailhau Gate on Place du Palais Palace Square, the original gate of the city of Bordeaux, dating back to the 14th-century.