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City of the South in the Spanish accents and in the Italian facades, Toulouse always liked opening in the influences and in the cultures come moreover. Cultivating affectedly its Occitan identity, it shines nevertheless well beyond seas and oceans by its cultural wealth, its lifestyle and its technological exploit. Toulouse conjugates marvellously the sweetness of a city where life is enjoyable and the strength of a forward-looking metropolis.
When we come to Toulouse for the first time, we are struck by the colour of the city. Indeed, it was built in the course of the centuries by using almost only the tile and the wide Roman brick, was called "foraine" in Midi Toulousain, antique inheritance the custom of which it immortalized until our days. It confers on facades the warm colours of the pink the softest in oranges the most blazing so characteristic, which, throughout day, fire the city, nicely nicknamed pink City. Other "flowery" nickname: the " City of violets ". There is a Brotherhood of the violet in Toulouse, where the production of this flower was very important. The Violet is one of the rewards awarded by the Academy of the floral Games of Toulouse.
In Toulouse, the art is at him. The music declines its most beautiful ranges there: classics (the National orchestra of the Capitol of Toulouse), jazz, varieties, bel canto, operas… the vaults of Halle aux Grains, of the Theater of the Capitol and, more recently, the Zénith
(9 000 places) resounded and will resound even for a long time with ovations of enthusiastic spectators.
Cradle of the firm Airbus, Toulouse is an European high-tech city today which groups together numerous high-technology industries in computing and in spatial, as well as of numerous research institutes.
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