TOLOUSE TRIP
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Get in
By plane
Regular scheduled domestic and international flights arrive at Blagnac airport , about 20 minutes from the city. It serves connections from Paris about every 30 minutes. There are many other flights as well, for example to London, Munich and Frankfurt.
To get to the city from the airport, you can use a bus shuttle For about 5.00 € which takes about 30 minutes. A cheaper option is to use bus number 66 which would take you to the metro. Going by taxi will cost about 20 €.
Departure/arrival hall for your flight can be find out searching for a flight number at airport web site add space between carrier code and flight number.
By train
French railways :
Paris : 5h (by TGV) to 7h30 (common train). Bordeaux : 2h00. Marseille : 4h00. The train station is almost in the heart of the city. Cheap tickets can be found via iDTGV which offers TGV tickets from Paris starting from about 18 euro.
Toulouse is one end of the train line through the Pyrenees (TER Midi-Pyrénées line 22). This line passes through Ariège, and most trains end at the capital Foix. However, 6 trains a day continue from Toulouse and Foix on to Andorre-L'Hospitalet (the closest train station to Andorra) and Latour-de-Carol, at which you can change trains towards Barcelona. The train to Andorre-L'Hospitalet takes 3 hours, 30 minutes, and the full journey to Barcelona takes about 7 hours (including the change at Latour-de-Carol) and costs €30.
The schedule for the French train is on the Touristic Routes section of the SNCF website, while the Spanish schedule can be found by looking on the Rodalies de Catalunya page. The Catalan name of Latour-de-Carol is La Tor de Querol as listed on the Rodalies webpage.
By car
Major highways towards Paris, Bordeaux, Marseille, Barcelona
By bus
Bus and metro terminal at the railway station.
Bus services to Spain, Belgium, Italy, and Portugal can be made through Alsa bus departing from the main bus station in Toulouse.
There is a range of snack/sandwich bars, cafés, bakeries and restaurants at Toulouse-Blagnac Airport.
See
Toulouse has a small center, and you can reach most interesting places in the downtown area comfortably on foot.
- Basilique Saint Sernin - a church from the 11th Century, partly restored by the famous french architect Viollet-le-Duc.
- Hôtel d'Assézat - one of the most appealing of the many old mansions of the city
- Capitole - the imposing and palatial town hall and theater, its beautiful facade facing onto the grand Place du Capitole
- Pont-Neuf - despite its name(like the Parisian bridge of the same name, its title is most probably derived from the French for 'New', not 'Nine'.), the only old bridge across the Garonne river; built between 1544 and 1626
- Les Jacobins monastery church, contains Thomas Aquinas' relics.
- City park at the Grand Rond, a bit south-east to the center of the city
- Les Augustins Used to be a monastery church, and is today an art museum
- Les Abattoirs Modern Arts museum, and there is also a nice garden with a nice view on the Garonne
- Georges Labit Museum Asian arts and Egyptian antiquities museum in an exotic and Mediterranean garden built in 1893, 17 rue du Japon
- Canal du Midi. The Canal du Midi or Canal des Deux Mers is a 240 km long canal in the south of France, le Midi. The canal connects the Garonne River to the Étang de Thau on the Mediterranean. The Canal du Midi is a UNESCO World Heritage Site
