A city with the characteristic architecture of the cities of the South of France7,8, Toulouse is nicknamed the “pink city” because of the color of the traditional local building material, terracotta brick. The development of Toulouse’s violet cultivation in the 19th century made it an emblem of the city and earned it the nickname “city of violets”. It is also, much more rarely, nicknamed the “Cité Mondine” (Ciutat Mondina in Occitan), in reference to the dynasty of the city’s counts, often named Raymond9.
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