page_title: Toulouse
section_title: Sights
hierarchical_section_title: Toulouse / Sights
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Voûte en forme de palmier culminant à 28 mètres, au couvent des Jacobins de Toulouse. English: Palm tree vault of the Dominican church of the Jacobins in Toulouse (1275-1292), 28 metres high. With the exception of the shaft of the columns and the keystones, everything is in brick painted in fake white stone or fake red and green marble.
context_page_description: Toulouse is the capital of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the region of Occitanie. The city is on the banks of the River Garonne, 150 kilometres from the Mediterranean Sea, 230 km from the Atlantic Ocean and 680 km from Paris. It is the fourth-largest city in France, with 479,553 inhabitants within its municipal boundaries, and 1,360,829 inhabitants within its wider metropolitan area, after Paris, Lyon and Marseille, and ahead of Lille and Bordeaux.
  Toulouse is the centre of the European aerospace industry, with the headquarters of Airbus, the SPOT satellite system, ATR and the Aerospace Valley. It also hosts the European headquarters of Intel and CNES's Toulouse Space Centre, the largest space centre in Europe. Thales Alenia Space, ATR, SAFRAN, Liebherr-Aerospace and Airbus Defence and Space also have a significant presence in Toulouse.
  The University of Toulouse is one of the oldest in Europe and, with more than 103,000 students, it is the fourth-largest university campus in France, after the universities of Paris, Lyon and Lille.
  The air route between Toulouse–Blagnac and Paris Orly is the busiest in Europe, transporting 2.4 million passengers in 2014.
caption: «Palm tree» of the Jacobins (1292)
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