Tourism in Gironde: contemplative and gourmet walk in the Médoc polders

Tourism in Gironde contemplative and gourmet walk in the Medoc

Protected from the estuary by a dyke, these rich lands, the “mattes”, are now used to grow cereals for the cows and horses that graze nearby. The small village of Talais was until the 15th century an island between ocean and estuary. Cows and horses graze in the wet meadows Patricia Marini Mattes, palus and … Read more