The Quinconces

Place Louis XVI from 1818 to 1830, then Place Louis-Philippe, the largest square in Europe was given the name Place des Quinconces in 1848, thanks to the trees that surround it, which were originally planted in a quincunx pattern. These 12 hectares were previously occupied by the Château Trompette, a huge fortification built by Jehan Bureau after 1453.

The Commerce

Two rostral columns were built by Pierre-Alexandre Poitevin in 1828 at the end of the esplanade and dominating the docks. Their high-relief decoration, ship's prows extended by rostra and caducei, are the work of Jean-Marie-Florent Bonino. The two statues symbolising trade that cap them are by Dominique Félix Maggesi.

The République and the Concorde

The Monument aux Girondins and to the Republic was built between 1894 and 1902.
It comprises a high, 43m column bearing a bronze statue of Liberty, on a support decorated with symbols of Eloquence, History, the City of Bordeaux, the Garonne, and the Dordogne, as well as two fountains decorated by bronze sculptural groups representing the "Triumph of the Republic" and the "Triumph of Concord".