Pink City Toulouse

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Toulouse is a city in southwestern France, near the Pyrenees, in the Midi-Pyrenees region, half way between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean.

Toulouse has become a center of aviation and spaceflight in the past 20 years. More than 35,000 of the city’s 400,000 citizen’s work in the civil aviation or space industries; Airbus / EADS is the largest employer in the region. The city has remained relatively unchanged despite the economic boom.

The city at the Garonne River is on the site of an ancient Roman settlement; even today many of the smaller streets follow their Roman counterparts and many of the red brick buildings are of a pseudo-Roman style. These buildings are also what give Toulouse its nickname La Ville rose (The pink city).

In the middle ages, Toulouse was one of the richest cities of France due to the sale of blue coloring (pastel) extracted from wood plants. This monopoly was only broken when the Portuguese began to import Indigo to Europe. Over 50 hotels, mansions, remain witness to the past wealth.Error processing request