Galerie Bordelaise — Local services in Bordeaux

It's an intriguing arcade, a bit rundown but still oozes with charm. The main entrance is from rue des Piliers de Tutelle with a view over towards Rue Sainte-Catherine. There are still few businesses trading from here, mainly shoes and a café and some pop-up shop when I visited. But what really intrigued me were the mid 1800s decor. The two entrances have iron gates and marble columns with exquisite decorative mortif throughout. You can still see double marble columns with Corinthian capital, beautiful ornaments on the architrave, Horn of Plenty and Pompei Pompeian decorations. Some still intact mirrors on the pilaster and the glass canopy bringing in natural light. This may be an old and almost neglected shopping arcade but it's full of history and is listed as a national monument. It's one of the rarest covered walkways designed in the diagonal of this block of buildings. I really enjoyed exploring this historic arcade. Highly recommended,...

Really enjoyed encountering this old shopping arcade and National Monument (1975) located along Rue Sainte-Catherine during a recent trip to Bordeaux. Designed by architect Gabriel-Joseph Durand and opened in 1834, Galerie Bordelaise is lined with marble columns and elegant design which these days is showing their age and link to the past.

This was a high-end and fashionable place to shop in the 19th-century and survives with several shops still open to this day. Worth a quick look-see and browse if you are interested in old...

Galerie Bordelaise — Rue Sainte-Catherine

Pénétrer dans la Galerie Bordelaise, c’est remonter le temps jusqu’au XIXᵉ siècle, à une époque où les grands magasins étaient à la fois lieux d’élégance, de promenade et de contemplation. Sous sa verrière et ses lignes raffinées, on marche dans un décor figé dans l’histoire, une douce parenthèse à l’écart de l’agitation de la rue Sainte-Catherine.

Cette superbe galerie m’a inspiré une création intégrée au projet La Ville en Points de Fuite, où j’explore les formes architecturales et la géométrie urbaine à travers la photographie et l’art numérique. © T. Guyard – Licence CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 –...