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Cursed Gold Bricks and Pink Clay Self Guided Tour of Toulouse
Haute-Garonne
About
A lie about Michelangelo once saved a Renaissance mansion from demolition — and you'll stand in its courtyard on this app-based self-guided walking tour of Toulouse. From cursed Roman gold to a merchant who paid a king's ransom, this Toulouse audio tour traces how river mud, blue dye, and sheer ambition built France's Pink City. You'll learn why a convent's soaring vault rests on a single impossibly thin column, how a wrongful execution in a sunny café square inspired Voltaire to change European law, and why a medieval Black Madonna now wears haute couture by Gaultier and Lacroix.
No fixed schedule, no group — pause for cassoulet at Marché Victor Hugo, linger inside Saint-Sernin, or skip ah...
Highlights
From 2 hours to 4 hours
Offered in German (Deutsch) & 8 Others
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
From 2 hours to 4 hours
Offered in German (Deutsch) & 8 Others
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
100% Satisfaction Guarantee: If you don’t love the tour, write to us for a full refund.
1-year access to audio on iOS & Android. Listen to the tour anytime, as many times as you like
Audio and written guide included
Offline access to the tour (no internet connection needed) once tour is downloaded
Images to identify stops and in app interactive map for navigation
Any physical devices or headphones
Human tour guide at location
Meeting Points
Departure
Place du Capitole
This is a self-guided audio tour on our self-guided tour app. To activate the tour, check your email for instructions from us sent right after booking. Can’t find it? Search for our company in your email inbox and spam folder. OR contact us via support.Pont Neuf
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Important Information
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Service animals allowed
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Public transportation options are available nearby
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Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Cancellation policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
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For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
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Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
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If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
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This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund.
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Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
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Stand before eight marble columns and ask why no single person could ever open the city's most important chest.
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Donjon du Capitole
Peer up at a tower built from paranoia, where eight locks required eight keys turned simultaneously.
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Couvent des Jacobins
Watch an entire Gothic ceiling balance on one impossibly thin column — then find who's buried beneath it.
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Rue du Taur
Walk the street a bull dragged a bishop's body through — and learn where the animal finally dropped dead.
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Eglise Notre-Dame du Taur
Step inside the church built where the rope snapped and find a fourteenth-century family tree painted for people who couldn't read.
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Basilique Saint-Sernin de Toulouse
Enter one of Europe's largest Romanesque churches and discover the controversy that sparked a century-long architectural war.
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Jeanne d'Arc triomphante
Pause before the teenager whose courtroom answers left her own judges speechless.
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Marche Victor Hugo
Taste the coiled sausage that anchors Toulouse's most fought-over dish — and a candied flower a queen couldn't stop eating.
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24 hour clock
Look up at a clock face where noon sits at the top, midnight at the bottom, and the hands move at half speed.
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Place Saint-Georges
Sit in the café square where a sixty-four-year-old linen merchant was broken on the wheel — and Voltaire picked up his pen.
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Cathedrale St-Etienne
Compare two churches awkwardly fused together and spot why locals call this the "unfinished cathedral."
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Musee des Augustins
Hear how one archaeologist's most productive lie rescued a masterpiece across town from the wrecking ball.
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Georges Bemberg’s Foundation — Hotel of Assézat
Follow a young heir from sudden fortune through religious war, public betrayal, and a mansion he never finished.
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Basilica of Our Lady of the Daurade
Meet a medieval Black Madonna who changes robes with the seasons — including haute couture by Gaultier and Lacroix.
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Cross the oldest surviving bridge in Toulouse and learn why it alone stood when floodwaters rose eight metres in a single night.
Cursed Gold Bricks and Pink Clay Self Guided Tour of Toulouse
Haute-Garonne
About
A lie about Michelangelo once saved a Renaissance mansion from demolition — and you'll stand in its courtyard on this app-based self-guided walking tour of Toulouse. From cursed Roman gold to a merchant who paid a king's ransom, this Toulouse audio tour traces how river mud, blue dye, and sheer ambition built France's Pink City. You'll learn why a convent's soaring vault rests on a single impossibly thin column, how a wrongful execution in a sunny café square inspired Voltaire to change European law, and why a medieval Black Madonna now wears haute couture by Gaultier and Lacroix.
No fixed schedule, no group — pause for cassoulet at Marché Victor Hugo, linger inside Saint-Sernin, or skip ah...
Highlights
From 2 hours to 4 hours
Offered in German (Deutsch) & 8 Others
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
From 2 hours to 4 hours
Offered in German (Deutsch) & 8 Others
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
100% Satisfaction Guarantee: If you don’t love the tour, write to us for a full refund.
1-year access to audio on iOS & Android. Listen to the tour anytime, as many times as you like
Audio and written guide included
Offline access to the tour (no internet connection needed) once tour is downloaded
Images to identify stops and in app interactive map for navigation
Any physical devices or headphones
Human tour guide at location
Meeting Points
Departure
Place du Capitole
This is a self-guided audio tour on our self-guided tour app. To activate the tour, check your email for instructions from us sent right after booking. Can’t find it? Search for our company in your email inbox and spam folder. OR contact us via support.Pont Neuf
