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loving a city, loving a book and a deep colour. the mind sends spakles of joy among the
pages. in front of her, an ancient square is shinning silently.
" À Toulouse, pas de mairie, mais un majestueux Capitole ! Édifice emblématique, il abrite l’hôtel de ville, un théâtre et des salles d’apparat où l’on croise les célébrités de la ville.
Siège du pouvoir municipal depuis sa construction, décidée par les Capitouls au XIIe siècle, transformé et embelli à chaque époque, le Capitole déploie sa majestueuse façade néoclassique sur l’incontournable place du même nom.
Ses murs racontent les grands moments de l’histoire toulousaine : de l’épisode cathare à la création des Jeux floraux, des comtes de Toulouse au siège de la ville.
À l’étage, on traverse de magnifiques salles de réception, ornées des allégories de l’Amour de Paul Gervais, des 10 toiles géantes de Henri Martin, notamment la salle des Illustres dont les peintures retracent l’histoire de Toulouse et dont les bustes font revivre les personnalités qui ont marqué la ville.
Amateurs d'art lyrique ? Le Capitole, c'est aussi le célèbre opéra de Toulouse. "
Article site : Toulouse tourisme
Capitole de Toulouse - 17 & 18ème s., Classé MH 1840, 1911, 1995
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October 2012 - Uploaded 2013/12/10
The Capitole Building in Toulouse, in the late evening just after dusk.
The Place du Capitole is right at the centre of the Old Town of Toulouse and is home to the town hall and a large plaza that is often full of tourists or demonstrations/festivals of one kind or another.
The Capitole is the historical seat of Toulouse’s municipal government and is the biggest building in the city (not counting the big hangers and such at the Airbus base).
The pink brickwork of the Capitole building reflects in the sunlight late in the day and in the water on the plaza when it has been raining.
Being right in the centre of the city, it’s pretty hard to spend a day when you don’t walk across the square in one direction or another.
The Capitole Building in Toulouse, in the late evening just after dusk.
The Place du Capitole is right at the centre of the Old Town of Toulouse and is home to the town hall and a large plaza that is often full of tourists or demonstrations/festivals of one kind or another.
The Capitole is the historical seat of Toulouse’s municipal government and is the biggest building in the city (not counting the big hangers and such at the Airbus base).
The pink brickwork of the Capitole building reflects in the sunlight late in the day and in the water on the plaza when it has been raining.
Being right in the centre of the city, it’s pretty hard to spend a day when you don’t walk across the square in one direction or another.
Place du Capitole at night, Toulouse, France.
360° panorama, spherical projection.
11 exposures @10mm. EXIF from central shot.
Explore Highest position: 20 on Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Noche en la plaza
night in the square,
Nacht auf dem Platz,
Capitolium,
Place du Capitole,
Mairie de Toulouse,
Toulouse, Occitania,
Situada al cor del districte del Capitole, al centre de Toulouse, la Place du Capitole és la plaça principal de la ciutat.
Dades EXIF: 8seg f11 ISO100 17mm
Sony A7iii + Tamron 17-28 f2.8
Filtre ND1000
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A few days ago I made a mistake on my computer and I've lost all the original pictures I've taken since february. I've lost the last NZ pictures (the ones by the beach), my pictures from Ireland, all my recent Toulouse street shots (some of them were truly good) ... I'm so sad, it is a total disaster :-(
[Updated : I've recovered most of the files, see here]
Il y a quelques jours, j'ai fait une connerie (n'ayons pas peur des mots) sur mon ordinateur et j'ai perdu toutes les photos que j'avais prises depuis fin février. J'ai perdu mes dernières images de Nouvelle-Zélande (celles près de la plage), mes photos d'Irlande, toutes mes dernières photos de rue à Toulouse (certaines étaient vraiment bonnes) ... Je suis abattu c'est un désastre total :-(
[Mise-à-jour : J'ai récupéré la plupart des fichiers, voir ici]
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Developed in the 19th century, Toulouse's main square, the Place du Capitole, is the city's literal and metaphorical heart, where Toulousiens turn out en masse on sunny evenings to sip a coffee or an early aperitif at one of the sidewalk cafes that line three sides of the square. On the eastern side is the façade of the Capitole, the city hall, built in the 1750s. Inside is the Théâtre du Capitole, one of France's most prestigious opera venues, and the late 19th-century Salle des Illustres (Hall of the Illustrious).
On the SW corner of the Palace (at the right in the photo) is the Crowne Plaza Hotel, where we stayed.
Toulouse is known as La Ville Rose (‘The Pink City’) due to the terra-cotta bricks used in many of its buildings.
Panorama created in-camera.
The Capitole and Place du Capitole are the heart of the municipal administration of the French city of Toulouse and its city hall. It is supposedly on the spot that St Saturninus was martyred. The bishop of Toulouse is said to have been tied to the legs of a bull, which was driven down the steps of the town's capitol, causing his head to be bashed open. The Capitouls (governing magistrates) of Toulouse embarked on the construction of the original building in 1190 to provide a seat for the government of a province growing in wealth and influence. The name "Capitole" referred not only to the Roman Capitol but also to the capitulum, which was the chapter of the governing magistrates. It was a centre of contention during the 1562 Toulouse Riots, with Huguenot forces holding it with captured cannon. In the 20th century, the structures surrounding the vast (2 ha) Place du Capitole were redesigned, but the current façade, 135 m long and built of the characteristic pink brick in Neoclassical style, dates from 1750, built according to plans by Guillaume Cammas. The eight columns represent the original eight capitouls. In 1873, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc built a bell tower typical of the style of northern France on top of the donjon of the building. It was in this donjon that Jean Calas, a Protestant victim of a religiously-biased trial, was interrogated. Only the Henri IV courtyard and gate survive from the original medieval buildings. It was in this courtyard that the Duke de Montmorency was decapitated after his rebellion against Cardinal Richelieu. A thorough redesign of the Place du Capitole in 1995 reserved the space for pedestrians. Some of the interior of the Capitole can be traced back to the 16th century. Today the Capitole houses the city hall, as well as the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse opera company and the Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse. The Salle des Illustres contains 19th century works of art. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitole_de_Toulouse
The Capitole and Place du Capitole are the heart of the municipal administration of the French city of Toulouse and its city hall. It is supposedly on the spot that St Saturninus was martyred. The bishop of Toulouse is said to have been tied to the legs of a bull, which was driven down the steps of the town's capitol, causing his head to be bashed open. The Capitouls (governing magistrates) of Toulouse embarked on the construction of the original building in 1190 to provide a seat for the government of a province growing in wealth and influence. The name "Capitole" referred not only to the Roman Capitol but also to the capitulum, which was the chapter of the governing magistrates. It was a centre of contention during the 1562 Toulouse Riots, with Huguenot forces holding it with captured cannon. In the 20th century, the structures surrounding the vast (2 ha) Place du Capitole were redesigned, but the current façade, 135 m long and built of the characteristic pink brick in Neoclassical style, dates from 1750, built according to plans by Guillaume Cammas. The eight columns represent the original eight capitouls. In 1873, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc built a bell tower typical of the style of northern France on top of the donjon of the building. It was in this donjon that Jean Calas, a Protestant victim of a religiously-biased trial, was interrogated. Only the Henri IV courtyard and gate survive from the original medieval buildings. It was in this courtyard that the Duke de Montmorency was decapitated after his rebellion against Cardinal Richelieu. A thorough redesign of the Place du Capitole in 1995 reserved the space for pedestrians. Some of the interior of the Capitole can be traced back to the 16th century. Today the Capitole houses the city hall, as well as the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse opera company and the Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse. The Salle des Illustres contains 19th century works of art. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitole_de_Toulouse
Patriote - Dispersion musclée du “Piquenique” pacifique des “Gilets-Jaunes” (non autorisé) - Place du Capitole – Toulouse - 12 Janv. 2019 -
Nota : Cette photo a été publiée par un journal local de Toulousain.
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Terracotta brick buildings on Place du Capitole, the main square in the city of Toulouse, Occitanie, France
Some background information:
Toulouse is the capital of the French region of Occitanie and also the one of the department of Haute-Garonne. The city has about 470,000 inhabitants and is situated on the banks of the River Garonne, 150 kilometres (93 miles) from the Mediterranean Sea, 230 km (143 mi) from the Atlantic Ocean and 680 km (420 mi) from the French capital city of Paris. It is the fourth-largest city in France and with its almost 1,315,000 inhabitants its metropolitan area is also the fourth-largest French metropolitan area, after Paris, Lyon and Marseille, but ahead of Lille and Bordeaux.
Toulouse is also called the "Pink City" (in French: "La Ville Rose") because of its unique architecture made of pinkish terracotta bricks. It counts two UNESCO World Heritage Sites, the Canal du Midi (designated in 1996 and shared with other cities), and the Basilica of Saint-Sernin, the largest remaining Romanesque building in Europe, designated in 1998 because of its significance to the Santiago de Compostela pilgrimage route.
Since at least the Iron Age, the Garonne Valley was a central point for trade between the Pyrenees, the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. The historical name of the city, Tolosa, was first recorded in the 2nd century BC, when the settlement became a Roman military outpost. After the conquest of Gaul, it was developed as a Roman town. In the 5th century AD, Tolosa fell to the Visigothic kingdom and became one of its major cities. In the early 6th century it was even serving as the Visigothic kingdom’s capital, before it fell to the Franks under Clovis in 507, after the battle of Vouillé. From this time, Toulouse was the capital of Aquitaine within the Frankish realm.
In 721, Duke Odo of Aquitaine defeated an invading Umayyad Muslim army at the Battle of Toulouse. Odo's victory was a small obstacle to Muslim expansion into Christian Europe, and the Muslims finally occupied a large territory including Poitiers. However, a decade later, Charles Martel won the Battle of Tours. Martel’s victory is widely believed to have stopped the northward advance of Umayyad forces from the Iberian Peninsula and have preserved Christianity in Europe during a period when Muslim rule was overrunning the remains of the Byzantine and Persian Empires.
The Frankish conquest of Septimania followed in the 750s, and a quasi-independent County of Toulouse emerged within the Carolingian sub-kingdom of Aquitaine by the late 8th century. The Battle of Toulouse of 844, pitting Charles the Bald against Pepin II of Aquitaine, was key in the Carolingian Civil War. During the Carolingian area, the town eventually became the capital of the County of Toulouse.
In the Treaty of Paris of 1229, Toulouse formally submitted to the crown of France. Also in 1229, the University of Toulouse was established after the Parisian model, intended as a means to dissolve the heretic movement. Contemporaneously a long period of inquisition began inside the Toulouse walls. The inquisition lasted nearly 400 years, making Toulouse its focal point.
In 1271, Toulouse was finally incorporated into the kingdom of France and declared a "royal city". In 1323 the poetic academy Consistori del Gay Saber was established in Toulouse to preserve the lyric art of the troubadours and the city became the centre of Occitan literary culture for the next hundred years. The year 1320 brought a pogrom against Toulouse's Jewish population by crusaders. But the 14th century also saw the beginning of the Hundred Years' War in 1337 and the onset of the Black Death in 1348. Despite strong immigration, all these events made Toulouse’s population diminish. That’s why by 1405 Toulouse had only 19,000 residents.
However, the situation improved in the 15th century. King Charles VII established a parliament. Reinforcing its place as an administrative center, the city grew richer, participating in the trade of Bordeaux wine with England, as well as cereals and textiles. Another primary source of income was the production and export of pastel, a blue dye made from woad. During the French Wars of Religion in the 16th century, the city backed up the Roman Catholic cause. In 1562, about 4,000 Huguenots were killed.
The next centuries remained more or less calm but in 1814, the Battle of Toulouse took place, one of the final battles of the Napoleonic Wars, just four days after Napoleon's surrender of the French Empire to the nations of the Sixth Coalition. During the battle the city proved stoutly defended by Marshal Soult. One British and two Spanish divisions were badly mauled in bloody fighting on 10th April, with Allied losses exceeding French casualties by 1,400. Soult held the city for an additional day before orchestrating an escape from the town with his army, leaving behind some 1,600 of his wounded men, including three generals. Wellington's entry on the morning of 12th April was acclaimed by a great number of French Royalists. That afternoon, the official word of Napoleon's abdication and the end of the war reached Wellington and on 17th April Soult finally agreed to an armistice.
In 1856, Toulouse was connected with the French rail network and in 1917, the aircraft factory of Pierre-Georges Latécoère was founded. Down to the present day, the city is ranked as the number one hub of aircraft and even aerospace industry in all of France and also in all of Europe. Starting in the 1960s, the Aérospatiale company produced the Concorde airliners in Toulouse.
Today, the biggest European aircraft manufacturer Airbus S.A.S. has important factory premises as well as its corporate headquarters on the company site next to the international airport of Toulouse-Blagnac. Of course, Airbus is also Toulouse’s dominant employer. In Toulouse, the final assembly of the types of aircraft A380, A320, A330 and A350 takes place.
Toulouse, in general, is particularly beautiful at night, because it's so well lit...
I was lucky to be taken on a lovely night stroll around some most interesting neighborhoods of Toulouse by my dear personal friend - and an accomplished photographer himself - Georges M, and his wife. I owe to both of them not only a lovely, relaxing couple of hours, but also some real useful guidance around the city - a guidance that helped me a lot on the next morning, while I was wandering here and there on my own, taking pictures.
Thank you, my dearest G. & D. - I 'm deeply grateful to you both for inspiring quite a few of the shots belonging to this Set!
Georges M: www.flickr.com/photos/14519237@N02/
Au sommet des rampes, les 2 Dioscures Castor et Pollux en marbre.
Les 2 frères sont représentés en dieux cavaliers, ainsi qu’ils étaient honorés à Rome, tenant à l’origine leurs chevaux par la bride et de l’autre main une lance. Leurs vêtements généralement portés par les cavaliers sont retenus à l’épaule par une agrafe et rejetées dans le dos, laissant ainsi apparaître leurs corps nus selon l’esthétique grecque.
Only diptychs, live colors, 2 instants, live of the night, my vision of one story... My Stories
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Seulement des collages, deux instants tout en couleurs, la vie nocturne, ma vision de l'histoire... Mes Histoires
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Place du Capitole, Toulouse
Toute la série en grand et fond noir... ICI
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