Bordeaux, France, long known as “la belle endormie” (or “sleeping beauty”), has reawakened as “a hybrid of ornate architectural confection and brawny cosmopolitan port,” writes travel author Alexander Lobrano in this month’s Architectural Digest. Thanks to a massive decade-long revitalization project (launched in the mid-1990s) that restored hundreds of magnificent 18th-century limestone buildings at the city’s center, Bordeaux was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2007.
Here are a few of the city’s architectural marvels:
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