The Cathedral of Saint-andré in Bordeaux was consecrated in honor of St. Andrew. It is located on the square Pyo-Berlin close to the Palais Rohan.

This temple was built on the site of the early Church – so, in historical documents preserved mention of the temple, which was built on this site in the III century, another Church was built in the early ninth century. The construction of the Cathedral of St. Andrew began here in the XI century. His consecration took place in 1096, but the Cathedral was erected in a period of almost five centuries.

Often the cathedrals of France became a place of detention, Royal marriages, and this fact has become a remarkable event in the history of the temple. In the Cathedral of St. Andrew was married in 1137, Eleanor of Aquitaine and the future king Louis VII.

From the XII to the XVI century and was reconstructed and the reconstruction of the Cathedral in this period the temple there is an additional floor of the nave, North portal, double Lancet Windows and pointed arches, and detached from the main building, a bell tower in the flamboyant Gothic style with eight tons ' bell, installed in the second half of the nineteenth century. During the great French revolution, the Cathedral received only minor damage, but at the beginning of the next century there were carried out restoration work.

Today the guests of Bordeaux appears amazing beauty of the Cathedral, built in the Gothic style. Its symmetrical towers rise to a height of 80 meters, the facade is decorated with scenes of the last judgment, over which is a window in the form of a rose, embellished with floral motifs. Inside the temple you can see paintings and sculptures, the earliest of which date back to XIV century, astronomical clock 1782, and the body is a great-sounding – though of modern origin.

The Cathedral of Saint Andrew's since 1998, is a world heritage site by UNESCO. In this register he was entered as one of the temples situated on the pilgrims way to Santiago de Compostela.