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Pessac (French pronunciation: [pɛsak] (listen); Occitan: Peçac) is a commune in the Gironde department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. It is a member of the metropolis of Bordeaux, being the second-largest suburb of Bordeaux and located just southwest of it. Pessac is also home to Bordeaux Montaigne University and the Institut d'études politiques de Bordeaux.

The Hôtel de Ville (French pronunciation: [otɛl də vil], City Hall) is a municipal building in Pessac, Gironde, in southwestern France, standing on Place de la Vème République.

Pessac is a railway station in Pessac, a western suburb of Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. The station is located on the Bordeaux–Irun railway line. The station is served by TER (local) services operated by SNCF. The Pessac Centre tram stop of the Bordeaux tramway is adjacent to the railway station, with direct access between station and tram stop platforms.

Pessac Centre tram stop is the terminus of the Pessac Centre branch of line B of the Bordeaux tramway, and is located on Avenue Eugène et Marc Dulout in the centre of the commune of Pessac. The tram stop is adjacent to Pessac railway station, with direct access between station and tram stop platforms, and the Mairie de Pessac.The stop was inaugurated 29 May 2007, when line B was extended from Bougnard. It remained the sole terminus at the southern end of line B until April 2015, when a second branch was opened from Bougnard to France Alouette. The stop is operated by Transports Bordeaux Métropole.For most of the day on Mondays to Fridays, trams run at least every ten minutes between Pessac Centre and Bordeaux city centre. Services run less frequently in the early morning, late evenings, weekends and public holidays.

The canton of Pessac-2 is an administrative division of the Gironde department, southwestern France. It was created in 1982. Its borders were modified at the French canton reorganisation that came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Pessac.It consists of the following communes: Gradignan Pessac (partly)

Camponac Médiathèque tram stop is located in Pessac on line of the tramway de Bordeaux. It was opened on 29 May 2007 during the extension line B from Pessac Bougnard to Pessac Centre.

Bougnard tram stop is located on line B of the Tramway de Bordeaux, and served as terminus of that line between 3 July 2004, when the line was extended from Saint-Nicolas, and 29 May 2007, when the line was extended to Pessac Centre. The stop is located on Aavenue Bougnard in the commune of Pessac and is operated by Transports Bordeaux Métropole.To the west of Bougnard, line B divides into two branches, one running north to Pessac Centre and the other west to France Alouette. For most of the day on Mondays to Fridays, trams run at least every five minutes between the city centre and Bougnard, with services every ten minutes on the two branches. Services run less frequently in the early morning, late evenings, weekends and public holidays.

Saige tram stop is located on line of the tramway de Bordeaux.

UNITEC tram stop is located on line of the tramway de Bordeaux.

Château Pape Clément is a Bordeaux wine from the Pessac-Léognan appellation, ranked among the Crus Classés for red wine in the Classification of Graves wine of 1959. It is the oldest wine estate in Bordeaux, harvesting its 700th vintage in 2006. The winery and vineyards are located in the commune of Pessac, south-west of the city of Bordeaux. When the estate was omitted from the initial Graves classification of 1953 it caused some controversy.

Montesquieu University (French: Université Montesquieu), also known as Bordeaux IV (French: Bordeaux Quatre), was a French university, based in Pessac, the suburbs of Bordeaux. In 2014, it merged with the Bordeaux 1 and Bordeaux 2 to form the University of Bordeaux.Named after the French lawyer and philosopher Montesquieu, Montesquieu University was the successor of the former Law and Economics Faculty, which origins go back as far as the 15th century. It incorporated long-standing teaching programmes and institutes which have an established reputation in the academic specialities of the University: law, political science, economics and management. Montesquieu University was organised into 6 departments (UFR) in the areas of economics and management, law, and economic and social administration (AES), as well as an Institute of Business Administration (IAE), and 2 University Institutes of Technology (IUT). In addition, the Bordeaux Institute of Political Studies was also annexed to the University. The University had 14,000 students and a staff of 400 teachers and researchers, with a non-academic staff of 300. It awarded around 4,100 diplomas each year at the various sites in Bordeaux itself, as well as at the satellite sites of Agen and Périgueux.There were 12 government-recognised research centres at the university, some of which are attached to large research organisations such as the CNRS and the National Foundation of Political Science.

The Montaigne Montesquieu tram stop is located on line of the tramway de Bordeaux.