Parc Rivière
Château ruins and beehives set within a four-hectare wooded park with a wooden playground.
This guide to Parc Rivière in Bordeaux starts inside the roofless walls of a country château, tracing them back to Alfred de Luze, a merchant's son from Frankfurt who settled in Bordeaux around 1820 and built his fortune importing goods from other people's shipments. It follows his marriage into the wine-trading Johnston family and the five sons who went on to divide up estates across Bordeaux's vineyards, including the youngest, Charles, who kept this house and gave it its name. Along the way you'll hear how the city eventually came to own the ruin. Listen near the beehives in the old dining room, where the chimney is the only wall still standing to its full height.
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