Toulouse

The Cross of the Pink City

Toulouse calls itself the Ville Rose, the Pink City, after the brick that has covered nearly all its buildings for eight hundred years. This route crosses its historic centre: from the square where the old capitouls once governed to the basilica that kept relics for pilgrims bound for Santiago de Compostela, by way of a church shaped like a fortress and a convent with a stone palm tree on its ceiling. It's about 2.5 km, all flat, through the heart of the city.