The city, which developed at the confluence of the Isle and the Dordogne , at the center of a rich wine-growing region, was from the outset an important port through which goods transit from all over Europe. Long the second city in northern Guyenne after Bordeaux, it is its rival in terms of trade or taxation. Important garrison town (it will house in particular several cavalry and infantry regiments, as well as the national school of health reserve officers) until quite recently, it is today an economic and commercial center radiating on the north of the department, strongly influenced by a constantly growing Bordeaux conurbation .

Sights

• Libourne Museum of Fine Arts which presents a remarkable collection of paintings, sculptures, drawings etc. dating from the xiv ^th to the xx ^th  century.
• Fest’arts – Street theater festival. Every year, on August.
• Carmel chapel, former Carmelite convent, temporary exhibitions.
• Condorcet municipal media library.
• Liburnia Theater.
• Big screen cinema 10 rooms.
• Lucanes Invasions Festival , organized by the Lucanes Musiques association .
• The gendarmerie school which replaces the school of reserve officers of the Army health service (which remains famous in the memory of the called pharmacists and doctors who made their period of classes there, now dissolved).
• The Chapel of Condat , xi ^th and xv ^th  centuries, inscribed with historical monuments in 1925.
• The tower of the large port is one of the last vestiges of the fortifications which protected Libourne since the Middle Ages . It is classified as a historical monument .
• City Hall, xvi ^th  century , fully remodeled in the early xx ^th  century , housing the Museum of Fine Arts from Libourne on the second floor, classified historic monument .
• The St. John the Baptist church, rebuilt in style neo-gothic in xix ^th  century while preserving its chorus of xiv ^th  century , inscribed with historical monuments .
• The remains of the church of the former convent of the Cordeliers , xiii ^th and xiv ^th  centuries enrolled in historical monuments .
• The Libourne stone bridge from 1822 is also a magnificent testimony to the city’s rich past.
• The castle of Sales , xvii ^th  century , partly in the municipality of Lalande de Pomerol , listed historical monuments .
• The castle Pintey and its dovecote , xviii ^th  century , registered in the historical monuments .
• The old chapel of Carmel, today a cultural center .
• The synagogue , xix ^th  century , inscribed with historical monuments .
• Some post-war architectures are remarkable, such as the facade of a hairdressing salon from this period and the Sol & Flores villa; the Rex cinema is representative of Art Deco architecture  ; these monuments are highlighted by night lighting.
• INSEE also has its training center there. Each year, CEFIL (Insee training center in Libourne) receives the winners of the competitive examinations for administrative assistants and inspectors from Insee, as well as certain attachés and meetings of the Institute’s networks.