To move in the old Toulouse by Klod5
In the old alleys of Toulouse, it is even possible to see, on the walls of the houses, the plate streets and numbers of houses of the XIX th century. For the aware walker, these plates provide a fundamental information for your orientation :
- the names of the streets and the numbers of the houses on yellow plates, indicate the streets that are in the sense of the Garonne (East - West).
- the names of the streets and the numbers of the houses on white plates, indicate the streets that are perpendicular in the Garonne (South - North).
Besides, it is good to know that the numbers of the houses are ordered :
- for the parallel streets in the Garonne : of uphill downstream (in the sense of the course of the stream)
- for the perpendicular streets in the Garonne, the numbers increase more one moves away of the stream.Therefore, if you look for the number 1 of the Rue Alsace-Lorraine (embassy of Italy), it is in the beginning of this street (close to the Esquirol place), toward the uphill of the Garonne that you will find it.
