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