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Download the Itinerary 1. Hôtel de Bernuy 3. Hôtel d’Astorg 5. Hôtel de Nupces – Saint-Germain The Remarkable Heritage Site The historic centre of Toulouse is classified as a Remarkable Heritage Site (formerly known as a protected area) since 21st The home of businessman Jean de Bernuy Jean Delcros in the 1530s, Jean Astorg At n°15 Rue de la Bourse, parliamentarian August 1986. It extends across retains many of its original features despite around 1570, Guillaume de Saint-Germain Jean-Georges de Nupces had this monumental continuous remodelling works. Constructed around 1600… Successive owners modified mansion house built in 1716, the only one in 254 hectares, with 230 ha that fall in two stages between the 1500's and this mansion house according to a complex the neighbourhood to sit between a courtyard under the city and 24 ha that form 1530's, this mansion house stretches across blueprint. Open the doors to 16 Rue des and gardens. Once you have stepped through part of the Garonne. In 2016, the a substantial estate that comprised outbuil- Changes, which is accessible during the week. the doorway flanked by imposing carriage Conservation and Development wheels, you discover the courtyard of honour dings, kitchens, offices, storage rooms, Beforehand, take a look at the façade that plan was launched, outlining initia- stables… Only the main elements remain dates to the time of merchant Jean Delcros, bordered by two wings set at right angles that to this day : two courtyards around which and its windows with fluted pilasters. Once housed the stables and storage rooms to the tives for promoting the site. can be found the residential buildings, one the threshold has been crossed, a covered left and, to the right, the kitchens. The door in the Low Gothic style, the other featuring passage leads you to the first courtyard. The to the main central building leads to a stone Renaissance décor inspired by Antiquity. building at the rear was built by the Capitoul stairway that serves the main reception rooms. Ionic order and high ceilings set apart the first From the small corner garden you can Jean Astorg and features windows framed floor, which nowadays has been partitioned. admire the buildings and the extremely tall by moulded grips and sections of pilasters. A garden and its orangery, which is visible staircase tower dating from the first phase of Guillaume de Saint-Germain, also a Capitoul, from 4bis Rue Clémence-Isaure, complete Legend construction works. Its exceptional dimen- had the building to the right constructed, as the ensemble. sions made this an architectural benchmark well as the passageways and wooden stair- The layout and order of this mansion house in Toulouse during the XVI Century. case, which are all remarkably well preserved. exude a solemnity that could also be felt at the Green Spaces Thirty years after work finished, the This jumble of courtyards and buildings illus- Hôtel de Pennautier in the previous century. mansion house became a Jesuit college. trates the complexity of the way in which Abandoned in the 1950s, a restoration project Viewpoint The doorway on Rue Lakanal dates back to the mansion houses of Toulouse were thankfully saved its façades. 1606 and is attributed to architect Pierre II constructed, with each proprietor adding Souffron, recalling the venue’s new purpose. their own elements to the building. M Metro Station 6. Hôtel d’Assézat 2. Hôtel de Pierre Comère 4. Hôtel Delfau T Tramway Station Velo Toulouse Station Index of Heritage Sites In the XIX Century, Baron Taylor said that 1. Hôtel de Bernuy 10. Hôtel this mansion house was worthy of a Prince. Dahus-Tournoer It was, however, the home of businessman 2. Hôtel de This mansion house giving onto Rue Saint- Built between 1493 and 1497, this mansion Pierre d’Assezat, who commissioned the Pierre Comère 11. Hôtel Rome and Rue Tripière has two faces ; one house was commissioned by merchant Pierre building of one of the most harmonious and Remarkable Heritage Site Maynier dit devoted to its merchant activity and the Delfau. With its boutique and its courtyard thoughtfully decorated private houses of 3. Hôtel d’Astorg “du Vieux-Raisin” other to the private life of its proprietor. dominated by a tower staircase, it is charac- the Renaissance. Several inheritances and a – Saint-Germain This building, much like other “merchant teristic of a type of mansion house building soupçon of patience allowed him to acquire 12. Hôtel d’Espie houses”, combines a commercial purpose, in XV and XVI Century Toulouse. As with the the plots of land needed to begin construction 4. Hôtel Delfau with boutiques facing the street, and the Hôtel d’Astorg, a business premises is located of his mansion house, designed by architect 13. Hôtel residential role of its courtyard. Pierre on the ground floor, whilst a long corridor Nicolas Bachelier, in March 1555. In accor- 5. Hôtel de Pennautier Comère, a merchant and trader, commis- leads to the living areas. In order to explore dance with Toulouse tradition in the XVI de Nupces sioned its construction from 1622 and 1626. these, step up to an arched doorway at 20 Century, the tower staircase, which here sits 14. Hôtel d’Ulmo At 3 Rue Saint-Rome, the mansion house’s Rue de la Bourse. The boutique and corridor in a square corner, serves the living quarters 6. Hôtel d’Assézat decor makes use of brick and stone. Note still boast their original cross-ribbed vaults, of the main building. A ramp beneath the 15. Hôtel the arch that houses a boutique : origi- examples of which are rare nowadays in the tower leads to the kitchens. The ensemble 7. Hôtels Dassier de Bonfontan nally, a second arch existed to its right. civil architecture of Toulouse. The courtyard is rounded off by other amenities: a loggia et Tornié-Barrassy Perpendicular to this, at 9 Rue Tripière, archi- stretches out towards the rear, as well as and a walkway held up by imposing consoles 16. Hôtel tect Pierre Levesville designed a suspended the tower and the walkways that lead to the adorned with volutes. 8. Hôtels de Lafage frontispiece and decors of diamond-shaped various floors of the main body of the building. Bachelier drew his inspiration from the de Molinier points made of cut brick. It opens up onto This mansion house changed hands in step plans of Sebastiano Serlio: other than et de Clary 17. Hôtel, 27 allées the superposition of the order, note the its courtyard, with arches modelled on with the owner’s fortunes and misfortunes, (“de Pierre”) François-Verdier tripartite design of the bays of the second those of the former Capitole. Upon Pierre just like so many others in Toulouse. François floor, set out by the architect. The doorway Comère’s death, these buildings with two de Papus, an advisor to Parliament in 1618, 9. Hôtel d’Avizard 18. Hôtels surmounted by an oculus leads to the faces were split between his two heirs. was one such owner. de Pauilhac, proprietor’s office and, nowadays, provides Marsan et Calvet access to the Jeux Floraux Hall. Heritage Walks 7. Hôtel Dassier and 9. Hôtel d’Avizard 11. Hôtel Maynier 13. Hôtel de Pennautier 15. Hôtel de Bonfontan 17. Hôtel, Hôtel Tornié-Barrassy known as « du Vieux-Raisin » 27 allées François-Verdier Mansion houses Truly remarkable features of our streets, it seems we know mansion houses by heart… but do we really ? Urban residences of important figures prior to the Revolution, originally home to a family and their domestic staff, service rooms were normally located Once separate buildings, these houses in the outbuildings, with stables and are now joined and are home to a hotel. This mansion house provides evidence of Named after a since disappeared inn, this This mansion house at 16 Rue Vélane, built in Philippe de Bonfontan, both Marquis and This home with the allure of a Bourgeois storage rooms on one side and kitchens As so often in Toulouse, the façade at 46 the importance of the use of chromatic mansion house at 36 Rue du Languedoc was a U-shape around a courtyard of honour, looks Capitoul, acquired what is now 41 Rue house can be found on the site of the on the other. Its arrangement and Rue des Couteliers offers no clues as to brickwork, stone and plaster effects in connected to the Hôtel Dahus, with which out onto one of the largest private gardens Croix-Baragnon in 1767. His mansion house former Cathedral quarter, destroyed and decor guided visitors from the official the remarkable features that lie behind it. Toulouse during the XVII and XVIII Centuries. it shares certain characteristics (crenels, in the city. Best explored during the city’s brings a harmonious touch of neoclassical rebuilt after the Revolution. Whilst its entrance to the private rooms and, This part of the mansion house bears the Its excellent state of preservation reinforces false machicolation). Remodelled by succes- Heritage Days. Henri Reich de Pennautier, decor to the street. On the main façade, the façade on Rue Sainte-Anne dates back depending on the period, to the main name of the Dassier family, proprietors its historical significance. Owned by parlia- sive proprietors, it stands as a little labo- a parliamentarian, had this mansion house three central spans form an amply deco- undoubtedly to the Ancien Régime, the from the start of the 1830s, to which we staircase, great hall, lounges… mentarian Claude d’Avizard, its current ratory of Renaissance architecture. The constructed between 1650 and 1654. It is rated Avant-Corps, with a ring of windows building offered a totally different face owe the neoclassical façade that gives great staircase tower was reworked in the Toulouse’s Preservation Area features form dates back to the late XVII Century.
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