Pauillac

Chateau Lafite

Coat of arms

Pauillac

Location within Nouvelle-Aquitaine region

Pauillac

Coordinates: 45°12′00″N 0°44′56″W / 45.1999°N 0.7488°WCoordinates: 45°12′00″N 0°44′56″W / 45.1999°N 0.7488°W

Country

Pauillac

Government

• Mayor (2008–2014)

Sébastien Hournau

Area¹

22.74 km² (8.78 sq mi)

Population (2008)²

5,195

• Density

230/km² (590/sq mi)

Time zone

CET (UTC+1)

• Summer (DST)

CEST (UTC+2)

INSEE/Postal code

33544 /33250

Elevation

0–29 m (0–95 ft)
(avg. 6 m or 20 ft)

¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

²Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Pauillac ([po.jak], Occitan: Paulhac) is a municipality in the Gironde department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France.

The United States Navy established a naval air station on 1 December 1917 to operate seaplanes during World War I. The base closed shortly after the First Armistice at Compiègne.

Near the centre of town is a marina with moorings for about 150 boats. 2300m north of this is a floating platform where the very large Airbus A380 wings and fuselage sections are transferred from sea-going RORO ferries to barges. The parts are manufactured in Broughton, UK and Germany. The barges take them through Bordeaux to a dock at Langon and then by oversize road convoy to the assembly plant at Blagnac, Toulouse. See Itinéraire à Grand Gabarit for more details of the transportation.

The commune consists of only 3,000 acres (12 km²) of vineyards in the Haut-Médoc between the villages of Saint-Julien to the south and Saint-Estèphe to the north, but is home to three of Bordeaux's five first-growth wines: Château Lafite Rothschild, Château Latour, and Château Mouton Rothschild.

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