Parc Bordelais

This guide to Parc Bordelais in Bordeaux tells how the city commissioned landscape architect Eugene Buhler, who had already shaped Lyon's Parc de la Tete d'Or, to design a park for people who would never own a garden of their own. It follows Buhler's break from the formal, straight-avenued French garden style toward the curving paths that still cross this twenty-eight-hectare former vineyard, and the wine fortune of Camille Godard that paid for the exotic trees planted when the park opened in 1888. Take a slow, winding lap of the paths rather than a straight line across.