The Citadel of Blaye
Your stroll through the fortress is punctuated with information panels that evoke the history of the site and its development. Picnic tables are provided. For the comfort and safety of all, vehicles are not admitted to the site. Free parking is provided outside the ramparts. The old barracks are now fitted out as workshops for artists and artisans, restaurants, souvenir shops, a hotel, a museum devoted to the history of the citadel and the Gironde estuary.
The medieval village of Bourg
Nestled atop a large cliff, the village of Bourg is a classified “Ancient Village”. Fortified by the English and encircled by ramparts, people could enter Bourg via its gates, three of which are still visible today. Bourg is divided between two levels connected by a maze of small streets: the upper town (shops, craftsmen and the citadel) and the lower town (port, wash houses and water activities).
Pair-non-Pair cave
Visit Pair-non-Pair, one of the oldest decorated caves in the world, older than the one at Lascaux. Occupied for 60 years, before and after Aurignacian, over 15000 tools and 6000 bones from 60 animal species have been found, sources of information on the evolution of the human race, the lithic and bone industry as well as the climate and environment.
The gallo roman villas of Plassac
The archaeological site of Plassac, is listed as National Historical Monument. It contains the remains of 3 main states of Gallo-Roman villas erected successively between the 1st and the late 4th and early 5th century.
