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Toulouse History and Monuments Walk

Toulouse History and Monuments Walk

Toulouse · France

14 stops8.4 km1 h 41 min
  • 4 languages
  • Offline

Walk through Toulouse with a focus on its civic, religious, residential, museum and industrial monuments. You will see the Capitole, churches, a basilica, historic hôtels particuliers, museums and a castle, each revealing a different part of the city’s built history. The route is worth taking for the contrasts between public buildings, places of worship, private residences and working infrastructure.

The walk

Stops 1–6 of 14. The rest are in the app.

  1. Capitole

    Capitole

    A city hall built over eight centuries, with a façade that hides a whole vanished administrative fortress.

  2. Notre-Dame du Taur Church

    Notre-Dame du Taur Church

    A Toulouse church where Saint Saturnin’s legend meets Gothic brick and stubborn historical uncertainty.

  3. Jacobins Convent

    Jacobins Convent

    A Dominican convent with a forest of stone ribs, a turbulent afterlife, and Toulouse’s great Gothic palm.

  4. 8 more stops on this walk, in the app
  5. Hôtel de Bernuy

    Hôtel de Bernuy

    A pastel merchant’s Renaissance courtyard that became a Jesuit college and still serves pupils today.

  6. Hôtel de Brucelles

    Hôtel de Brucelles

    A sixteenth-century Toulouse town house where a Gothic façade opens onto a Renaissance staircase tower.

  7. Musée des Augustins

    Musée des Augustins

    One of France's oldest museums, born from a revolutionary seizure of a thirteenth-century convent.

  8. Stop 7

  9. Stop 8

  10. Stop 9

  11. 8 more stops in the app

Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places

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How a walk works

8 more stops in the app

This page shows the first 6 of 14 stops. The rest of the walk, and the guide who narrates it, are in the app.

  1. Pick a walk

    Every stop is a real place, already in walking order.

  2. Pocket your phone

    Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.

  3. Listen as you arrive

    On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.

See the whole walk in the app

Free to install · Every city’s featured walk is free, start to finish.

  • The route, followed

    A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.

  • In four languages

    English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.

  • Or build your own

    Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.

  • The unglamorous things

    Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.

  • No signal needed

    Download a walk before you go and it works under a souk roof or on a plane.

  • Picks up where you left off

    Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.