The Church of La Dalbade
by Klod5
The tradition wants that the church of the Dalbade is built on an oratory founded in VII th century by St.-Germier, bishop toulousain.
Its interior walls, primitively whitewashed to the lime in order to recall the sanctuary marial of it, gave him the name: Sancta Maria of Ecclesia Alba (St.-Marie of the white church), become " of albata " and frenchified thereafter in Dalbade.
But very quickly the church becomes too small and the competition with other parishes provokes many works :
- réaménagement of the new pentagonal bedhead (1490).
- repairing of the nave (1530).
- construction of a new portal by Michel Colin and its ornamentation by Merigon Talhan (1537).
- realization of a bell-tower confided to Etienne Guyot according to a drawing of Nicolas Bachelier.
May 6, 1548, the church is dedicated by Laurent Allemend, bishop of Grenoble and abbot of St.-Sernin.
At the end the XVI th century, the arrow is finally finished and, with its 83 meters, the bell-tower is higher of 16 meters that the one of St.-Sernin. The arrow will be destroyed at the revolution, because it jeopardized the principle of equality.
At the end the XVI th century, the arrow is finally finished, and with its eighty-three meters, the bell-tower prevails of sixteen meters over the one of St.-Sernin.
The arrow having been destroyed at the revolution (1792), because it jeopardized the principle of equality, one puts back in yard the building.
It is architect's E. Bach that one confides the care to take the first place owing St.-Sernin.
Musée Georges Labit
by Klod5
C'est le musée des arts et traditions d'Orient. Avec de magnifiques objets venus de Chine, du Japon, d'Asie centrale, d'Egypte et de tout le Moyen Orient. Dans une maison, qui était celle de l'explorateur, Georges Labit, dont l'architecture est très exotique. Le musée est entouré d'un parc ouvert au public.
It is the museum of the arts and traditions of Orient. With magnificent objects come from China, Japan, central Asia, Egypt and the whole Middle Orient. In a house, that was the one of the explorer, Georges Labit, whose architecture is very exotic. The museum is surrounded with a park opened to the public.
Les Halles
by mikey_e
Every French city and town has it Halles - literally the halls, but essentially the municipal market where you can find the usual sort of scenes people generally associate with shopping for food in France. Or at least used to be - from what I can tell, this one in Toulouse has been converted to a musical performance centre.
At the divergence of Place Dupuy and Rue Metz.
Toulouse ville espagnole
by Klod5 about Les cousins latinos
Restos et autres bars à tapas qui valent également le détour
Restaurants and other tapas bars that are worth the detour also :
La Bonita : 112 Grand rue Saint-Michel. Pour les amateurs de viande. Un conseil si vous y allez le soir, mangez léger le midi. For the amateurs of meat. An advice if you go there in the evening, eat light the noon.
Le Puerto Habana : 12 port Saint-Etienne. Pour finir la soirée. Salsa garantie jusqu'au bout de la nuit. To finish the evening. Guaranteed Salsa until the tip of the night.
Le Barrio latino : 144 avenue de Muret. Même envie de faire la fête, même punition qu'au Puerto Habana. Same desire to make the feast, same punishment that in the Puerto Habana.
Cathédrale Saint Etienne - St-Stephen's Cathedral
by breughel
The leaflet, in English, at the entrance explains:
"The Cathedral of St-Stephen surprises and puzzles the visitor whether one looks at it from inside or from outside, since it is the result of a juxtaposition of buildings that have been either amputed or left unfinished, built between the 11th and the 17th century."
The traveller, who on his trip in old Europe, will have seen hundreds of churches with a classical plan, will enjoy leaning against the enormous central pillar (of Jean of Orleans) and discovering to his left the Bishop Isarn's nave, known as Raimondine nave, the most ancient part and on his right the choir of the Canons with the stalls, the altar, the ambulatory with twelve chapels .
The tapestries show the life of St-Stephen. Unfinished and truncated, because of financial difficulties, death of the master of the works, fire, revolution, St-Etienne is a perfect example of setbacks that made this cathedral, which should have been a rival of Reims according to the bishop Bertrand de l'Isle, more surprising than beautiful.
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Le dépliant fort intéressant mis à disposition à l'entrée de l'église indique fort justement:
"Autant à l'intérieur qu'à l'extérieur, cette cathédrale surprend et déconcerte: elle est le résultat d'une juxtaposition d'édifices amputés et inachevés, du XIe au XVIIe siècles et même jusqu'au XXe siècle (portail nord).
A travers les caprices d'un plan et de structures aux formes asymétriques; la cathédrale de Toulouse réalise un ensemble plein d'intérêt par l'abondance et la variété des œuvres qu'elle renferme."
Le voyageur, qui dans son périple en cette vieille Europe, aura vu des centaines d'églises au plan classique, sera ravi en s'adossant à l'énorme pilier central (de Jean d'Orléans) de découvrir à sa gauche la nef Raimondine et à sa droite le chœur des Chanoines.
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City Hall (Toulouse, France)
In the Park
Altar-Tomb of Thomas Aquinas
In the Ambulatory
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