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The Remarkable Heritage Site Legend Index of Heritage Sites Canal de Brienne ord Périg du rue rue Dalayrac Canal de Brienne allée de Barcelone PL. A. rue du Taur FRANCE rue rue 1. Pont des Catalans 3. The Saint-Pierre lock 5. The quayside and ports allée de Brienne rue des Lois des Amidonniers The and the Canal de Brienne along the right bank Deville POSTE Remarkable Boulevard PL. UT1 rue de Rémusatrue La Fayette Heritage Site all. du Niger CAPITOLE WILSON av. Paul Séjourné rue Romiguières rue s PLACE HOTEL 3 nière rue Valade ami DU DE M rg rue 2 Pa LES Mirepoix CAPITOLE VILLE ue rue The historic centre of Toulouse Quai St- Pierre r JACOBINS CAPITOLE r. Maurice Fonvieille PL. ST- etta rue is classified as a Remarkable PIERRE b m de PL. DES a Heritage Site (formerly known Lakanal rue St - Rome CONSERV. Larrey 1 G la JACOBINS PLACEas a protected area) since 21st rue des Blanchers OCCITANE The alluvial terrace, the birthplace of the r. B. Lormian August 1986. It extends across rue rue Ste-Ursule GARONNE LYCÉE et COL. Pomme city of Toulouse, have always provided Quai L. Lombard Created at the start of the 20th Century by P. DE FERMAT 254 hectares, with 230 ha that fall embankments since its very beginnings. Pont des Catalans a engineer Paul Séjourné, this bridge marked v under the city and 24 ha that form Carved out in the 18th Century in order to This whole area was regulated by Joseph- . rue P. Vidal d rue St-Antoine du T the final stage of the encirclement of the bypass the Bazacle causeway and link the u Marie de Saget and his project of major C PL. part of the Garonne. In 2016, the city by the boulevards and it links the h rue PL. ST-GEORGES Garonne with the mouth of the Canal du urban works undertaken between 1765 and â 4 DE LA te rue Boulbonne Conservation and Development Amidonniers and Saint-Cyprien quarters. a rue des Arts Midi, the Canal de Brienne forms part of the 1789. Quayside walls made of brick and two u DAURADE rue Jean Suau Constructed in an innovative arch bridge d rue plan was launched, outlining estate of the “Canal du Midi” that was listed ports deeply altered the look of the right ’E a Pont St-Pierre Temponières r. Peyras style, it links two parallel structures 10m by UNESCO in 1996 as a World Heritage site. bank of the River Garonne, from the Pont- rue de Bourrassolu 17 rue Cujas initiatives for promoting the site. apart that support the deck. The bridge The States of the Languedoc commissioned Neuf right up to Bazacle. It was intended to 16 Peyrolières was constructed out of stone: cut stone 5 Q. de la Daurade6 ESQUIROL this work in order to facilitate the transpor- streamline the quayside in order to protect allée Charles de Fitte r. des Novars for the pillars, brick for the arches and tation of merchandise. Surrounded by buil- Toulouse from flooding and relaunch the rue Viguerie M rue d'Alsace - Lorraine rue de Metz concrete for the flooring of the deck. 7 dings, its starting point was set where the local economy, which was in decline since 18 PL. This two colour pattern associated with PL. ESQUIROL moat of the ramparts began. Built entirely the fall of the pastel trade. When it came to rue des D'ASSEZAT C.C.I. the presence of gaps at regular inter- from cut stone, the lock was designed in construction, Saget decided upon a regular r. de la Trinité r. Nestor Brun Metzr Baragnon vals accentuates how this bridge echoes Fontaines de . rue des Filatiers Legend r. Gamelsy the oval shape selected by Riquet in 1670 style of architecture that was punctuated rue Tolosane 15 rue d rue Croix - the Pont-Neuf. Its cast-iron railings are r. des Couteliers e for all the locks along the Canal du Midi. with arcades at ground level. The Revolution ST- s adorned with the cross of Languedoc P Supported ardently by the modernist arch- brought his project to a halt, but left a PLACE NICOLAS a Green Spaces Pont Neuf r alternating with the initials of the city of bishop Loménie de Brienne, who gave the DU a diverse range of façades as evidence of this rue Réclusanne d Toulouse. Inaugurated with wild celebra- RAVELIN o u e canal its name, it was inaugurated on 14th time. gde rue St - Nicolas 8 an x l tions in the presence of delegates from rue du Pont St - Pierre r Viewpoint February 1776. Nowadays it is a much e r. Champêtre CARMES M the city of Barcelona, it demonstrates the loved spot for walkers, covered as it is PL. r. rue St- r. Chairedon 14 close Occitano-Catalan friendship. rue Adolphe Coll e PL. MAGE by a canopy of leaves from trees that are rue de la République u Quai M M Metro Station PLACE rue Mage 6. The basilica of aq N.D.DE LA DES hundreds of years old. r. du Ravelin ST- L DALBADE CARMES rue Ninau Notre-Dame-de-la-Daurade M la CYPRIEN de r. Joseph Vié r. GARONNE r. d. Pt d. Tounis rue de la rue St - Rémesy T Tramway Station 2. Bazacle ST-CYPRIEN av. argu PLACE uss es and the causeway RÉPUBLIQUE ARZAC r. A Perchepinte de uriers 9 de la Garonnette 4. Pont Saint-Pierre rue Jean de nt Velo Toulouse Station ei rue Ozennerue av. Étienne Billières rue de Varsovie T rue de imp. de r Varsovie Dalbade . Languedoc des Tounis E s p CARTE allée Charles de Fitte i rue n du a rue du Tchad Index HOPITAL s SITE s J. DUCUING e Gascogne PRAIRIE PATRIMONIAL INST. r. de la Fonderie rue of Heritage Sites Magné DES r. de Nazareth Pins REMARQUABLE Cours Dillon FILTRES CATH. rue Marie rue du Pharaon 1. Pont 10. The Gde des Catalans Saint-Michel lock rue Laganne13 PL. DU r. Furgole The current church, with the classical archi- pont de Halage de Tounis SALIN 2. Bazacle 11. Pont tecture of the 18th Century, replaced Sainte- rue des Marie-la-dorée (daurada, in the Occitan av. M. Hauriou Fleurs and the causeway Saint-Michel In use since Antiquity and a fundamental language), a medieval building, integrating r. des Renforts PALAIS Remarkabler. Gazagne Heritage Site aspect of the city’s history, this natural This is the fifth version of a bridge that was the stunning early Christian apse that was DE JUSTICE 3. The Saint-Pierre 12. The Ramier passage –a strip of hardened marl– decided upon in 1852 by a local council adorned with mosaics on a gold background. lock and the Canal hydro-electric that wished to lighten the load on the Pont- rue Sainte - Lucie de Brienne plant crosses the River Garonne perpendicular Tradition tells of a Roman temple that was ROND-POINT allées Jules Guesde PLACE to the alluvial terrace upon which Toulouse Neuf, which was constantly congested. The transformed into a Christian church and St - Cyprien J.E. DURANTI rue A. Duméril DU FER was built. Until the establishment of the first two suspension bridges were washed 10 4. Pont 13. Cours Dillon historical sources confirm the existence rue À CHEVAL away by a succession of floods on the River 11 Pont-Neuf in the 13th Century, this ford of a basilica here from the 5th Century. A Arcs PLACE rue des 36 Ponts Saint-Pierre and the Prairie was used when other bridges were impas- Garonne, in 1855 and 1875. The next two, r. Campaigno Pont St-Michel LAFOURCADE des Filtres central feature of the medieval Benedictine du T rue de l'Eau sable. At the end of the 12th Century, the built in 1877 and 1931, gradually became monastery, the church was destroyed in desr. Rodin T allée 5. The quayside more and more fragile until they were unfit Cimetièrerue Delpy rue Cany M T Prior of La Daurade basilica authorised the 1761, and faced ruin due to some ill-advised rue and ports along 14. Château d’eau for the growing amount of road traffic. This r Paul Feuga construction of a causeway to supply the building works carried out on its dome. It e the right bank water tower i PALAIS imposing mills that were greatly admired led to the construction of a fifth version, was progressively reconstructed up until the Cimetière rue Fines m s DE JUSTICE Rapas a r and that produced great profit for the made of concrete and metal. Propped up St - Cyprien e late 19th Century, with the addition of the 12 R i 6. The basilica 15. Hôtel Dieu s l Grande rue St - Michel on the ancient abutments and decorated i ou “Pariers”, who were akin to shareholders. majestic stone façade with colonnade and Cimetière d u p La Daurade Saint-Jacques n n s with chandeliers that give it a 1900’s look, e e In 1888 these windmills were replaced a rue des frontispiece that now overlooks the banks Rapas M r M the bridge was opened in 1987. It connects n . by a hydro-electric plant, operated since i r r. Ste-Catherine of the Garonne. The antiquity of the Marian impasse Barthère G s 7. The School 16. Port Viguerie u e the Saint-Cyprien quarter to the historic u rue Gaston Phœbus d 1946 by EDF. This can be visited nowa- cult –evidence of which can be seen in J d Bûchers of Fine-Arts e centre and, on the right bank, it leads out .
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