No. 01 · Landmark
Place du Capitole
Toulouse's vast neoclassical main square
The 18th-century pink-and-cream Capitole — Toulouse's city hall and opera house — fronting a vast square paved with the Occitan cross.
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Toulouse
La Ville Rose, capital of pink brick and aerospace
Southwest France's terracotta capital — a warm-bricked city of Romanesque churches, sunny squares, and a parallel identity as Europe's aerospace hub building Airbus jets just outside town.
When to go
April–June and September–October; midsummer is hot.
Getting around
Two Metro lines plus trams and a free bike share (VélôToulouse); the historic centre is walkable.
Toulouse highlights
Don't miss
The top places to start with if you only have a day or two — the essentials before you go deeper.
No. 02 · Landmark
Basilique Saint-Sernin
Largest Romanesque church in Europe
An 11th-century pilgrimage church on the Camino de Santiago route, with a five-storey octagonal bell tower and one of the world's richest collections of medieval relics.
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Saint-Cyprien
Left-bank quarter with markets and the Garonne
Across the Pont Neuf from the centre — a working neighbourhood with the Marché Saint-Cyprien hall, the Hôtel-Dieu hospital museum, and riverside walks down to the Daurade chapel.
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4 hand-picked
A curated mix of landmarks, neighborhoods, and museums worth your time in Toulouse, France — grouped by type below.
Landmarks
2 places
Attraction
1 place
Where to stay
1 place