Bordeaux capital of the world famous wine region of the same name, maintains a population of over half a million. The city offers good quality restaurants, as well as the obligatory and numerous cafés that appear wherever the French congregate. Its regional museum is worth seeing and the small centre contains the café-lined Gambetta square conceived in Louis XV's time. Cours de l'Intendance, the street of chic shops, leads to the classical Grand Théâtre built in 1780. Rue Ste-Cathérine, the city's main shopping street, leads toward the best of the city's museums, the Musée d'Aquitaine, a collection including drawings and writings. The Musée des Beaux-Arts has a small collection of Rubens, Matisse and Kokoschka.