Jardin public
Landscaped promenade of tree-lined lawns, a botanical garden and grand town houses built on former vineyard lots.
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This guide to the Jardin public in Bordeaux follows a single sentence from 1746, when the royal intendant Tourny signed off on a garden here and called it, in his own words, a second Exchange, an evening Exchange for merchants to keep doing business after dark. You'll hear how that idea turned former vineyard and kitchen-garden land into sought-after frontage, and meet the glassmakers, potters, shipowners and wine traders who bought up the surrounding plots and built the town houses still lining the garden's edge. It traces how a promenade meant for evening strolls quietly reshaped who owned the ground around it.
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