Toulouse in a few words

  • Rugby, or the local team, le Stade
  • Airplanes, like Airbus, Latécoère or Concorde
  • Nougaro whose words and melodies still ring from Les Minimes to Saint-Sernin, from Blagnac to New York
  • Pink, like brick in the sunset
  • Brick, flesh of the city and skeleton of its millenary coral
  • Violet, local specialty
  • Pastel which, in the Renaissance, brought prosperity and beautiful mansions to Toulouse
  • Space : Ariane rocket, Cnes (French space agency), satellites, probes, Pic du Midi observatory… Toulouse is always a little over the moon
  • Pyrénées, where we go skiing, hiking, recharge one’s batteries
  • Canal du Midi, our link with the Méditerranée
  • Cassoulet, foie gras, duck, the French paradox
  • Capitole, central landmark
  • Rocade, the ring road
  • Chocolatine, which the rest of the country calls pain au chocolat