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The first stone of the Wine Civilizations City was made Wednesday, June 20, 2013 in Bordeaux at the Vinexpo. Before appointment set to open in 2016 for a world tour of the vineyards from Bordeaux, interview Laurence Chesneau-Dupin, Director of Programs and culture.
It is an initiative whose Mayor is responsible, he regretted that in the city there is no place to truly celebrate the wine. When the project was set up, we immediately wanted to give it a certain scale, and the city of Bordeaux has turned to a number of partners to join in the reflection and the financing of this project. It is carried collectively by public structures: the city, the region, the state of Europe but also the CIVB, the Chamber of Commerce and a large share of private patronage, which is quite unusual for a project cultural importance of this.
The primary goal of this project is to provide a universal vision of the great history of wine around the world and time. We want to make this City of Wine Civilizations both a welcoming place for visitors interested in the subject of wine and also a place that can arouse their curiosity and make them want to go to discover the Bordeaux vineyards, but also vineyards worldwide. Bordeaux is a structural place for the city and its region. vehicle id It will allow to accommodate at least 425,000 people a year. It is also a way to pay tribute to the product that made his reputation, his worldwide fame: the world knows the wines of Bordeaux. Bordeaux myth still exists. The city reaffirms its position as economic and cultural capital vehicle id of the wine.
The architectural project that stood out among the 114 cases we have received is the project of the French agency X-TU architects Anouk Legendre and Nicolas Desmazières. The bold concept can be summarized by the phrase coming from them: "The building is unlike any known form because it is an evocation. Not the wine, but the soul of the wine. " vehicle id Very round shapes vehicle id that evoke the world of wine, nature and vegetation ... high environmental quality materials such as glass, wood framing spectacular, metal gold will do reflect the atmosphere and light Bordeaux, the color of the river. One way to be based in the while being a marked and visible object landscape.
The heart of this place is a permanent exhibition consisting of a scenic plateau of 3,000 m2 which will deploy 25 thematic modules that will allow the wine to present different perspectives: the soil, geography with a world tour of vineyards to show how men have harnessed nature to produce wine worldwide. A historical, archaeological almost with a course in the heart of civilizations, wine consumers throughout the ages. A more artistic approach with the report of wine and art in particular on the themes of love, seduction, eroticism and relationship to religion is fundamental in the history of wine ... What makes the link between people through the great history of trade without which the wines do not have the place they have today in the world, ancient history quite exciting that was born in the heart of the Mediterranean. vehicle id And then of course, the art of living with the art of fine dining table, wine service, words of wine ...
Yes of course! There will be a dedicated space for Bordeaux wines Bordeaux to explain how the name that has become vehicle id today as in the dream world. In telling the story of the territory of a geographical point of view, we will tell the story in the wider sense of the whole southwestern vehicle id vineyards of Aquitaine. We will screen in this space a film about the Great Men that made Bordeaux through the ages until today, innovators that make this region is still a model for the rest of the world.
In addition vehicle id to the permanent exhibition, we want this city to be a meeting place for all ages for both the merely curious as for amateurs. vehicle id We will install there a showroom for large annual art exhibitions, a reading room where you can consult journals, magazines, DVDs, quantities of books on wine architecture, arts table and even fiction books since many writers put the wine scene ... An auditorium for hosting shows, film, Presentatio