Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Two Loose In Toulouse, 3: Our Lady of the Bull; And Dinner

Another church and the end of our day, loose in Toulouse...

We wandered back through the University area...

But stopped to take a look at Our Lady of the Bull
church; Saint Sernin was the first bishop of Toulouse
(sent by Pope Fabian; or was it Pope Elvis?); refused
to acknowledge the pagan gods and was martyred
by being tied to a bull and dragged around town
(Christian version of the Dirce myth?); the church
stands on the site of his burial; bones and relics now
in the basilica

Nice 13th century Gothic

The painting tells the story...

Lots of paint in this old church


We'd thought of visiting the Jacobins church we saw in
2013, but it was already closed; so we proceeded on in
the direction of the Capitolium

Stopping briefly at the 16th century donjon du capitale
there

Now the city tourism office
Admiring the architecture

Wondering about some of the residents

And ending up at a nice resto at Place Saint-Georges

My meat board...some of it game, I think

Plus a side of pate..

Her steak; the frites were victims of the cooking oil shortage in
France

Skinny, skimpily-clad, numbered people running past us as we 
made our way to the Metro and our hotel



1 comment:

Tawana said...

Oh, pate, and then mache in your salad! Hard to find those wonderful greens here.