The Église Notre-Dame, Bordeaux's Church of Our Lady, has led several lives.

Built between 1684 and 1707 for the Dominican Order (known in France as the Jacobins), it was seized during the Revolution and repurposed as a Temple of Reason. It only became Notre-Dame in the 19th century, once the fever had passed.

The façade is richly ornamented across two levels in the Baroque style, but it's the bas-relief above the central door that repays a closer look: the Virgin Mary, surrounded by angels, presenting the rosary to Saint Dominic. Inside, the elaborateness falls away, and the interior is, by contrast, rather plain.

The church also has an unlikely neighbour in history. Francisco Goya spent his final years nearby, and his funeral was held here in 1828.

VoiceMap's self-guided audio tours use the church as a waypoint on Bordeaux's Golden Triangle, connecting its Dominican origins to Goya's exile and the neighbourhood's Enlightenment-era street names.