Bordeaux: Jardin Public

Preview Steps

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  Step 1: The walk starts out from the Les Hangars tram stop (line B), opposite Hangar 17 by the Rivee Garonne.

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  Step 2: Walk back towards the town along the road, admiring some of the fine housing once used by Bordeaux’s leading wine merchants.

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  Step 3: Or along the river if you prefer. Just visible on the left is the spire of the 14th century Gothic Basilica of St Michael.

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  Step 4: Walk until you reach the Bourse Maritime. Built for the Chamber of Commerce in the 1920s & this statue of Modeste Testas. Turn right here.

• Step 5: Modeste Testas was brought to Bordeaux as a slave in 1780 by the brothers Testas. She was set free in later life. The statue commemorates the abolition of the slave trade.

• Step 6: From 1672 to 1837 ships departed Bordeaux in a series of triangular slave trade voyages. On the east coast of Africa, food and other items were exchanged for slaves who were then ferried to colonial plantations in the Caribbean.

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