Cave de Sauveterre - Vignerons de Bordeaux

Moulin du Haut Benauge, Vine, Wine rural museum.
In Gornac.
Tel: 00 33 (0) 556 61 96 15
17th century windmill restored and turned into an agricultural museum showing ancient trades. Wonderful view.

Agricultural Museum at the Farm Déloges in Les Esseintes
Tel: 00 33 (0) 556 71 44 59
In this ancient restored farm the owner tells about the work of farmers in the time of his parents and his grand-parents.

Museum and Labyrinth ‘Oh! Les Légumes Oubliés' (Forgotten vegetables)
In Sadirac. Tel: 00 33 (0) 5 56 30 62 00
The gourmand labyrinth allows one to retrace the eating habits from Cro-Magnon to Space Odyssey. Visit of the farm and the conservatory, also of the garden and conservatory orchard. Initiation in the tastes of forgotten vegetables.

Craft Museum, match monuments and natural science at Fontet.
Tel: 00 33 (0) 5 56 71 21 17
Wooden, hand-made models of agricultural implements of the years 1930/1960.
Crafts museum with several exhibitors. Match monuments (Guiness book of records.)

Pottery house and museum of ceramics, Sadirac.
Tel: 00 33 (0) 5 56 30 60 03
Demonstration workshop, initiation for both children and adults, learning course.
To be discovered.

Château de Langoiran
Tel: 00 33 (0) 5 56 67 12 00
Castle-fort of the 13th and 14th centuries with work continuing until the 18th century, has a beautiful panoramic view of the Garonne. Today the château is a place of cultural activities (small museum and medieval happenings).

Château de Cadillac
Tel: 00 33 (0) 5 56 62 69 58 www.monum.fr
This castle of the Dukes of Epernon is an example of French architecture of the very beginning of the 17th century. Monumental fireplaces in carved stone or marble, painted ceilings and tapestries are witnesses of the ostentation of this residence.

Gallo-roman villa in Loupiac.
Tel: 00 33 (0) 5 56 62 93 82 www.leportail-rouge.com
On the wine property of ‘Portail Rouge': gallo-roman villa and thermal baths.

Château Lavison in Loubens
Tel: 00 33 (0) 5 56 71 41 35
A wine property on the base of a military edifice of the 13th century, manor house with dove- cote listed heritage property. (MH)

Domaine de Malagar in St. Maixant
Tel : 00 33 (0) 5 57 98 17 17 www.malagar.asso.fr
Francois Mauriac's residence, completely furnished. The view of the Garonne valley from the terrace is exceptional. The wine property extends over 25 hectares of ‘premières côtes' of Bordeaux wine.

Castrum de Pommiers in St Felix de Foncaude
Tel : 00 33 (0) 5 56 71 65 16
Group of buildings comprising a Feudal fort, mill, medieval bridge, chapel and military curtain. Medieval festival held in August.

ABBEYS.

Abbey of Sauve Majeure in La Sauve

Tel: 00 33 (0) 5 56 23 01 55
Founded in 1079 the abbey was the centre of the clearing of land for cultivation in part of Entre-Deux-Mers. There are magnificent roman capitals (of columns). The abbey is classified as ‘Patrimoine Mondial de l'Humanité'. (World Heritage of Humanity) in the titles of the routes of St James of Compostela. The former abbey barn now houses the ‘house of wines' (Maison des Vins) of Entre-Deux-Mers.

Blasimon Abbey.

Tel: 00 33 (0) 5 56 71 52 12

Classified historical monument, this ancient Benedictine abbey church was built in the 7th century. Remarkable sculptured doorway.

St. Ferme Abbey.

Tel: 00 33 (0) 5 56 61 69 92
This dignified Benedictine abbey was founded in the 11th century : figures carved on the roman column capitals. This is a halting-place on the road to St James of Compostela (Vézelay way). Also worth visiting are the churches of Castelviel, Lignan-de-Bordeaux and St- Martin-de-Sescas as well as the mills of Bagas and Loubens.

Villages of character.

Rions,
Tel: 00 33 (0) 5 56 62 12 92
Fortified village dominating the Garonne, a citadel of the 14th century. Houses and boutiques from the 16th and 17th centuries.

Ste Croix du Mont
Village perched on the hillside : spectacular grotto of fossilized oysters, roman church and the medieval fortress of Château de Tastes.

Sainte Macaire
Tel: 00 33 (0) 5 56 63 32 14
A medieval city which dominates the Garonne river, priory church of the Benedictines with impressive mural paintings inspired by the Apocalypse, square of arcades and imposing town walls.

Verdelais
Since the 11th century Verdelais has been the centre of a famous pilgrimage to Notre Dame (Our Lady). Surprising basilica church, monumental way of the cross with chapels, the tomb of Toulouse Lautrec, museum of religious art (votive offerings, goldsmith work and liturgical habits) and a vast panorama over the Garonne.

Castelmoron d'Albret
Tel: 00 33 (0) 5 56 61 82 73
The smallest commune of France : 3,5 hectares. Fortified village on a spur of rock: ancient washing place, amazing walls and hanging balconies, a potter has his atelier and boutique in the village.

La Réole
Tel: 00 33 (0) 5 56 61 13 55
Medieval city on a terrace overlooking the Garonne river, majestic building of the former abbey (cloister, remarkable church, wrought iron grill, monumental staircase) fortified château ‘Quat'Sos', 12th century town hall - the oldest in France.

The bastides - fortified towns.

‘New towns' of the Middle Ages, built in the second half of the 13th and beginning of the 14th century with the objective of bringing political stability and economic development to the region. They all adopt a geometrical design with straight streets crossing one another at a right angle, a central square with arcades and a church slightly off the square in one of the angles.

Créon
Tel: 00 33 (0) 5 56 23 23 00

This bastide (fortified town) bears the name of its founder Amaury lll de Craon, seneschal to the king of England in 1342. Créon was the seat of the royal provost-marshal of Entre-Deux-Mers until the revolution.

Cadillac
Tel: 00 33 (0) 5 56 62 12 92

This ancient bastide, founded in 1280, manifests numerous illustrations of the typical bastide of which the imposing ramparts and fortified town gates are examples.

Blasimon
Tel: 00 33 (0) 5 56 71 59 62
Founded in 1273 on the ‘castrum' of Blavini Mons it became a bastide in 1322.

Sauveterre de Guyenne
Tel: 00 33 (0) 5 56 71 53 45
Founded in 1281 the town still has all the four city gates intact and from one of them, Saubote, one overlooks the vineyards of Entre-Deux -Mers.
Monségur
Tel: 00 33 (0) 5 56 61 89 40
This bastide was erected on a rise in 1265 and has maintained the plot of the original plan. In the centre of the arcaded square there is a beautiful glass and wrought iron hall. A typical bastide church can be found here.

Pellegrue
Tel: 00 33 (0) 5 56 61 37 80
Planted on rocky spur: market hall of the 19th century, a church with a roman doorway and curious belfry also a renovated washing-place.

Activities in the open air

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