Tournefeuille

At the gates of Toulouse and in a green environment, the city of Tournefeuille offers an ideal and attractive setting for families.

Essentially a residential area, it is organized around a lively and commercial village center. Its many natural sites and leisure areas, such as the Touch green corridor or the Lac de la Ramée leisure center, are sure to please walkers, sports enthusiasts and nature lovers.

The public transportation network allows you to reach the Toulouse metro stations by bus, or the Airbus factories in Colomiers. The city also offers numerous sports and cultural facilities, such as the Escale theater, as well as schools ranging from kindergarten to high school.

The Sunday market is an institution and an appointment not to be missed by the inhabitants.

Saint-Étienne

Le quartier très chic de Saint-Étienne est organisé autour de la cathédrale Saint-Étienne.

Located in the centre of Toulouse, it is a wealthy district where magnificent private mansions stand alongside the city’s most luxurious shops. You can also find many antique shops in this district.

Le Griffoul, the impressive fountain on Place Saint-Étienne is the oldest in the city.

Lovers of refinement, history and beautiful monuments will appreciate this pleasant district of the city centre.

Saint-Cyprien

The Saint-Cyprien district, located on the left bank of the Garonne, has been a young and trendy district for some time.

Popular and cosmopolitan, this area is culturally rich. The old abattoirs have been transformed into a Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art. Saint-Cyprien is a lively place with many cafés, restaurants and shops of all kinds.

It is accessible by metro, which has helped to give the area a new lease of life.

Saint-Agne

Located in the East side of the city, Saint-Agne is a popular and residential area.

With three nurseries, a kindergarten and two primary schools, Saint-Agne district is ideal for young families. The University of Toulouse II and the École Supérieure du Professorat et de l’Éducation are also located here. As far as food is concerned, the Avenue de l’URSS, the most important street, offers small shops and restaurants, and even a mini-market for the most demanding. And finally, the Pavé theatre, with its quality contemporary programming, allows the inhabitants of the district to enjoy cultural entertainment.

In terms of architecture, the district is made up of small multi-storey buildings, but above all of numerous semi-detached houses and some pretty properties with gardens.

With the train station located there, Saint-Agne district is, of course, endowed with a quality transport network. Being located just south of the Capitole station, it is therefore very close to the centre as well. There is also the Saint-Agne station, on the B line of the metro, as well as several bus lines, which pass through the same point and offer various other stops on the Avenue de l’URSS or along the Rue Saint-Roch. As for the Vélô, there are numerous terminals available to residents.

Saint-Agne offers the possibility of living “independently”, and of reaching the city centre when the need arises. This proximity to the centre, to the train station, or to the university, while being able to rely on a quieter neighbourhood, makes it a very popular district.

Matabiau

Near the Canal du Midi, the Matabiau district is particularly popular with pure city dwellers.

This district, mainly linked to the Matabiau station, is a cosmopolitan area. It still benefits from a few small local shops and there are also many international food restaurants. The school network is very well developed, as is the transport sector.

As for real estate, the pleasant streets, many of which are classified, offer attractive townhouses and flats in quality residences or renovated houses. A project of metropolitan scale, called Toulouse Euro-Sud-Ouest, is currently being finalised in the district. It will include a total of around 1 million m2 of housing, offices, shops, shopping centres and leisure facilities, surrounding a multimodal hub around the Toulouse-Matabiau station and the future Marengo station.

The heart of the project is the Occitanie Tower: a skyscraper with glass walls and vertical gardens, which will be 150 metres high and have 40 floors. It is expected to be delivered in 2021-2022.

Les Chalets

The Chalets or Chalets-Concorde district is a district of Toulouse, located in the immediate vicinity of the historic center.

Large neo-Gothic mansions were built here (notably the Job family mansions, the house known as the Verrier or Castel-Gesta); they are located next to more dense and popular housing blocks, low houses known as toulousaines, characteristic of the city’s suburbs, and bourgeois residences with gardens, of which the eponymous rue des Chalets offers some characteristic examples.

The district is very lively with many restaurants, cafés and shops.

Les Carmes

A small village in the heart of the big city, the Carmes district is organized around a very lively and colorful market, the most important in Toulouse.

It is located between the Place du Salin and the Place d’Esquirol, and is one of the most popular districts in Toulouse.

This district takes its name from the convent of the Grands Carmes which is composed of the Carmes church, a chapel, a cloister and a garden. Inaugurated in 1892, the metal market of Carmes, former halls was built according to the plans of Charles Cavé, it was demolished in 1964 and replaced by the market-park of Carmes signed by the architects Georges Candilis, Shadrach Woods, Alexis Josic, Jean-Marie Lefèvre.

Rue des Filatiers and rue Bouquières are the most important streets in the district. Pedestrian, they are lined with small stores with flowered fronts and pretty animated cafés. You can admire the facades of houses in corundage, Renaissance style windows such as the house of the goldsmith Hélie Guéraud or the Lamothe house.