Toulouse is a city in southwest France on the banks of the Garonne River, half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.

FACTS AND FIGURES

• Population: 360,000
• The Toulouse metropolitan area is the second largest in southern France and one of the fastest growing in Europe.
• Center of French aircraft industry and other manufacturing activity
• Several thousand of city's Protestants were killed in 1562

SIGHTS AND ATTRACTIONS

• St-Sernin Basilica (large Romanesque church of brick and stone, Gothic belfry)
• Church of Les Jacobins
• Cite de L'Espace, visitors to this unique science museum discover the mysteries of the Earth and Universe through interactive exhibits and displays.
• Musee des Augustins