Through Anthony Assemat
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Toulouse, its sun, its historical sites, its gastronomic culture, its rugby, Airbus… and its medieval culture. According to the Toulouse Tourist Office, the Pink City is “one of the best-preserved medieval towns in Europe”. So if you want to find out the charm and the secrets of these narrow streets, these places of power, and these commercial districts which made the fame and prosperity of the 4e city of France, this walk is made for you!
A Toulouse paradox
Saturday June 19, 2021, the Pays d’Oc tourist agency, specializing in tourist services, organize a special visit, lasting 2 hours, entitled “Medieval Toulouse”. Details from the agency on the content of the visit:
“We invite you to learn more about the medieval history of Toulouse, a period known but for which we do not have so much knowledge, funny paradox! In short, in” the collective imagination “, it would be a an era plunged into filth, with either peasants or nobles, women spinning the spindle, knights knights in fur and catapults everywhere … Do the people of Toulouse manage to imagine the Pink City at this In fact, Toulouse already has several buildings from medieval times such as the Couvent des Augustins, the Cloître des Jacobins and the Basilica of Saint-Sernin. visible traces of this period and there are no institutions that talk about it, that’s what makes our visit unusual! “.
“An unrecognized and poorly judged period”
Cécile is one of the guides mobilized on this type of visit. An unusual course, according to her, “because it leads us to re-examine a period in fact little known and often poorly judged, by touching on different areas and to get an idea of the evolution of the city by integrating less visited places. “.
Culture, architecture and today’s Toulouse re-examined through the medieval legacy : enough to perfect your knowledge of the Pink City and to be unbeatable during your long summer meals!
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