It's vacation time yet again and I'm spending a week in the south-western city of Toulouse. Toulouse is known as La Ville Rose, "The Pink City," due to nearly all the buildings being made out of brick. Toulouse is also the 4th largest city in France.
Place de la Capitole - the heart of the city
Basilique Saint-Sernin - the largest Romanesque structure in Europe
Eglise des Jacobins - burial place of Saint Thomas Aquinas
Les palmiers - the "palm trees" get their name from the "fronds" of arcs sprouting from the "trunks"
Cathédrale Saint-Etienne - despite the same name as the cathedral in Metz, the two could not look more different! Have you ever seen a less-symmetrial cathedral???
quirky balconies
beautiful buildings
street signs are written in both French and Occitan - and there happens to be a Carriéra de Metz in Toulouse, not far from the Carriéra d'Alsacia Lorena!
For more photos, follow this link!
Merci! ;)
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