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1 Pont Gard, Nîmes.
2 Medieval Carcassonne.
3 Marseille’s signature
bouillabaisse.
4 Bordeaux’s La Cité du Vin.
4 5 The old city streets of Toulouse.

Day 5 dipping in and out of pictu resque villages.
Toulouse owes much of its modern-day Stop in Bergerac (p434) to explore the
dynamism to its university and Airbus, extraordinary Musée du Tabac, and take a
the European aeronautics conglomerate short detour to the charming village of
(advance-booked factory tours are St-Émilion (p413). When you arrive in
available), but most visitors come to Bordeaux (p400), dine by candle light at
explore the city’s centuries-old centre. Tante Charlotte (p401). It’s open late, so
Start at Basilique St-Sernin, France’s linger for a cocktail or three afterwards.
largest Romanesque church, then stroll to
the southern French Gothic-style Couvent
des Jacobins. In the afternoon, peruse the Day 7
sculptures and paintings of the Musée Explore Bordeaux’s 18th-century Grand
des Augustins, in a medieval Augustinian Théâtre before strolling east to place de
convent. Have dinner and a nightcap at la Bourse. Admire its impressive Classical
bustling Brasserie Flo, a local institution buildings reflected in the Mirroir d’Eau
with a huge menu. (“water mirror”), then head north along the
quay to CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain
(p400), a contemporary art museum
Day 6 housed in a two-century-old warehouse.
Start early and head northwest through Stop for simple, seasonal lunch at Le Café
plum orchards – producing the celebrated Madd, in a cobblestoned courtyard next
pruneaux d’Agen – to the river town of to Musée des Arts Décoratifs (p401). Later,
Agen (p444), just over an hour away. Visit take the riverside tram to La Cité du Vin,
the Musée Municipal des Beaux-Arts, a museum dedicated to the “living
whose prize exhibits include paintings heritage” of wine. Celebrate the end of
by Goya and the Vénus du Mas, a marble your journey with dinner at La Brasserie
statue from the 1st century BC. Set out Bordelaise, where farm-fresh duck and
on a meandering drive towards Bordeaux, tasty profiteroles lure locals.
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