Podensac (; ) is a commune in the

Gironde Gironde ( , US usually , ; , ) is the largest department in the southwestern French region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Named after the Gironde estuary, a major waterway, its prefecture is Bordeaux. In 2019, it had a population of 1,623,749.

department. It is located in the famous

Bordeaux Bordeaux ( ; ; Gascon language, Gascon ; ) is a city on the river Garonne in the Gironde Departments of France, department, southwestern France. A port city, it is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the Prefectures in F ...

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region in

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(southwestern

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Geography

Podensac is located within the

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vineyard A vineyard ( , ) is a plantation of grape-bearing vines. Many vineyards exist for winemaking; others for the production of raisins, table grapes, and non-alcoholic grape juice. The science, practice and study of vineyard production is kno ...

s, on the left bank of the

Garonne The Garonne ( , ; Catalan language, Catalan, Basque language, Basque and , ; or ) is a river that flows in southwest France and northern Spain. It flows from the central Spanish Pyrenees to the Gironde estuary at the French port of Bordeaux � ...

river, 30 km (19 mi) southeast from

and 15 km (9 mi) northwest from

Langon Langon may refer to: * Langon, Gironde, a commune in the Gironde department, France * Langon, Ille-et-Vilaine, a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department, France * Langon, Loir-et-Cher, a commune in the Loir-et-Cher department, France * Långön, ...

Podensac station Podensac is a railway station in Podensac, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. The station is located on the Bordeaux–Sète railway line. The station is served by TER (local) services operated by SNCF The Société nationale des chemins de fer fra ...

has rail connections to Langon and Bordeaux.

Population

Twin towns

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(

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; since 2018)

Economy

Lillet Lillet () is a French wine–based aperitif from Podensac. Classed as an aromatised wine within EU law, it is a blend of 85% Bordeaux wine, Bordeaux region wines (Semillon for the blanc and for the rosé, Merlot for the rouge) and 15% Maceratio ...

company ( apéritif made of wine and orange liquor). Lillet is famous for being the drink of James Bond in Casino Royale and

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films. *Maison Des Vins de Graves: a winehouse dedicated to the Graves wines.

Main sights

*Château d´eau

Le Corbusier Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 188727 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier ( , ; ), was a Swiss-French architectural designer, painter, urban planner and writer, who was one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture ...

, a Swiss-French architect (pioneers of what is now called

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) (http://www.fondationlecorbusier.asso.fr/podensac.htm) *Château Chavat: a 1917 castle classified in 2006 as a

Monument historique () is a designation given to some national heritage sites in France. It may also refer to the state procedure in France by which national heritage protection is extended to a building, a specific part of a building, a collection of buildings, ...

(National Heritage Site of France). It is surrounded by a garden labelled as

Remarkable Gardens of France The Remarkable Gardens of France is intended to be a list and description, by region, of the more than three hundred gardens classified as ''"Jardins remarquables"'' by the Ministry of Culture (France), Ministry of Culture and the Comi ...

. *Eglise Saint-Vincent: a church classified in 1925 as a

. *Mascaret (

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): the mascaret is a phenomenon in which the leading edge of the incoming tide forms a wave of water in the

Gironde estuary The Gironde estuary ( , US usually ; , ; , ) is a navigable estuary (though often referred to as a river) in southwest France and is formed from the meeting of the rivers Dordogne and Garonne just downstream of the centre of Bordeaux. Coverin ...

that then travels up the

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company''(avr. 2013)''

Geography

Population

Twin towns

Economy

Main sights

See also