''La Cité du Vin'' tram stop is located on line B of the

Tramway de Bordeaux The Bordeaux tramway network (french: Tramway de Bordeaux) consists of four lines serving the city of Bordeaux in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. The system has a route length of , serving a total of 133 tram stops. The first line of ...

. The stop is located on ''Quay Bacalan'' in the commune of

Bordeaux Bordeaux ( , ; Gascon oc, Bordèu ; eu, Bordele; it, Bordò; es, Burdeos) is a port city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, Southwestern France. It is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the prefectur ...

and is operated by

Transports Bordeaux Métropole Transports Bordeaux Métropole (or TBM, formerly Tram et bus de la CUB, or TBC) is a public transport system for the 28 ''communes'' of Bordeaux Métropole Bordeaux Métropole is the ''métropole'', an intercommunal structure, centred on t ...

. Initially known as ''Bassins à Flot'' tram stop, it opened on 27 July 2007 when line B was extended from ''Quinconces'' and served as terminus of that line until 20 October 2008, when the line was extended to ''Claveau''. The tram stop was originally named after the nearby ''Bassins à flot''

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. It gained its current name in May 2016 with the opening of the adjacent

Cité du Vin The Cité du Vin is a museum as well as a place of exhibitions, shows, movie projections and academic seminars on the theme of wine located in Bordeaux, France. Construction Architects The architects were Anouk Legendre and Nicholas Desmazi� ...

wine museum and tourist attraction. Just north of the tram stop, the line crosses over the entrance lock to the ''Bassins à flot'', with trams normally using a route over a

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at the downstream end of the lock, but with an alternative route available via the other end of the lock if the main bridge is swung open. The tram stop has two tracks and two side platforms. For most of the day on Mondays to Fridays, trams run at least every five minutes in both directions. Services run less frequently in the early morning, late evenings, weekends and public holidays.

Interchanges

TBM bus network

Close by

* CAP Sciences * FRAC Aquitaine

References

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