Sunny days inevitably mean crowds around the most photographed spot in Bordeaux: THE MIROIR D'EAU.
You know it inside out, you walk all over it, you spend good times there enjoying the magic of the spray.â
But do you really know it?â
Do you know what happens underneath?â
Until the late 1980s, this former port warehouse stored in its sheds, take a wild guess: wine and food supplies.â
In between, the shed also went through phases as a « bus depot » and a « private car park ».â
With a surface area of 3,450 sq m, it is the largest water mirror in the world!â
The « machinery » shed is bigger than a football pitch.â
When the tank or the « slab » (as they call it) fills up, more than 700 cubic metres of water arrive in a closed circuit.â
5 booster pumps push the city water through the roughly 960 surface injectors that create this fairy-tale mist.â
Incredible machine or brilliant idea⊠Probably a bit of both⊠Either way, you will never walk the Bordeaux Miroir d'eau the same way again.â
