Bordeaux is reasonably spread out along the western side of the River Garonne, with the eighteenth-century old town lying between the place de la Comédie to the north, the imposing buildings of the riverbank and the cathedral to the west. North of the centre is the vast open square of the esplanade des Quinconces, and further still, the Jardin Public, containing some very scant remains of Bordeaux's Roman past.
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