Toulouse

La Ville Rose – the capital of southern France

From the 2014 guide – ThomasThe capital of southern France, also France's technology capital and the home of Airbus. The city dates from before the year 1000 and had a university early on. A pleasant city.

Called the pink city after its brick façades. See the Basilique Saint-Sernin, the Place du Capitole and the Canal du Midi. With children: the Cité de l'Espace (space centre) and Aeroscopia by the Airbus factory.

The history of the Cathars

Counts Raymond VI and Raymond VII were the protectors of the Cathars. During the siege of 1218 Simon de Montfort was killed by a stone outside the city walls, and in 1229 the county lost its independence. The Inquisition held its first tribunal here.

UNESCO World Heritage

Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France

World Heritage since: 1998
This site: Basilica of Saint-Sernin and Hôtel-Dieu Saint-Jacques

71 churches, abbeys, bridges and hospices along the four French pilgrim routes to Santiago de Compostela, plus seven sections of the trail itself. Within the guide's area these include Saint-Sernin in Toulouse, the cathedrals of Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges, Saint-Lizier and Oloron, the Porte Saint-Jacques in Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port and the abbeys of Moissac, Conques and Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert.

Visit: Walk a day stage on the GR 65 or GR 653 – the scallop shell shows the way. Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port is the starting point for most people walking the Camino Francés over the Pyrenees.

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43.6045° N, 1.4440° E

Trails passing here

Via Tolosana – from Arles over the Somportapprox. 800 km · 35–40 days

Toulouse

The history of the Cathars

UNESCO World Heritage

Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France

Trails passing here

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