“We often hear Italian, Spanish or English spoken”

Almost 40 years after they were created, have traditional days gone mainstream? At Porte Cailhau, Pierre Lalanne, a guide at the tourist office, says that he no longer faces some of the situations experienced in the past, “when visitors refused to leave the tower of Saint-Michel at closing time. . On the other hand, we can see more foreigners. We often hear Italian, Spanish or English. »

“You can be racist, people from Bordeaux! »

One of them was Iker, an architect from Vitoria whom he met at the Grand-Theater. “I didn’t know these were traditional days in France,” he admits. I came to spend the weekend in Bordeaux and followed the entrants. Using rarely accessible spaces like the sewing workshop under the roof, the complexity of its structure intrigues him. Or the breathtaking view of the Terrace of the Muses, the Place de la Comédie and the Tourney alleys. “You can be racist, people from Bordeaux! He laughs.

“Bigger than a football field,” explains Romaine Barbot of the Organ Phantom Association, whose base of water glass is normally inaccessible. In part he presents a digital installation by Canadian artist Martin Messier The upcoming Echo Festival, “And it works better here than in an art gallery. The sound of water taps goes well with the soundtrack, is very loud, and has an atmosphere of concrete and metal. It immediately attracts people’s attention. On Friday evening, for the first performances, we saw young people coming a little warm. They came in front of the installation. They didn’t say a word!”