Toulouse is located 705km (438 miles) southwest of Paris, 245km (152 miles) southeast of Bordeaux, 97km (60 miles) west of Carcassonne, is the fourth-largest city in France and is the gateway to the Pyrenees mountain range, is an agricultural market center and an aero-research center and one of the great cities of French art (it has seven fine museums).

The food in Toulouse and in the rest of the Midi Pyrenees region, could be among France's most memorable. This city is situated half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea and has a population of about 1.1 million inhabitants in 2006. Toulouse is well known because of it's the high-tech center of the aerospace industry in Europe, it hosts the headquarters of Airbus S.A.S. and the National Center for Space Research has been headquartered here for more than 3 decades.

Toulouse is a very beautiful city, has a lot of architectural buildings, gardens and squares and also is a culture venue, this is the result of being the centre of Europe’s aerospace industry and space programme. Once Toulouse was the capital of the Visigoths and later the center of the comtes de Toulouse (counts of Toulouse).