Toulouse " La Ville Rose "

With 439 453 inhabitants on 1 January 2007, it is the fourth most populated town in France, after Paris, Marseille and Lyon and Nice before. The urban unit of Toulouse were in 1999, 761 090 inhabitants.1. In 2007, the town consists of 859 111 inhabitants and the urban area, 1 118 476. 

City's distinctive architecture, Toulouse is nicknamed the "pink city" because of the color of the traditional building material in local brick clay. Another nickname: the "City of Violets". There is a Brotherhood of the violet at Toulouse, where production of this flower was very important. The Violet is one of the awards by the Academy of Floral Games of Toulouse. 

In the past it was called the "City Mondine (the Ciutat Mondina in Occitan), in reference to the dynasty of the counts of the city that are often named Raymond. Birthplace of the firm  Airbus , Toulouse is today a European technology park which brings together many leading industries in aeronautics, IT and space, as well as numerous research institutes. It is also a university town, the fourth of France with 94 000 students, with its prestigious cultural facilities such as convention center, the library José Cabanis, the Zenith, the museum of modern and contemporary art of the Stockyards, LaCité Area or the National Theater of Toulouse (TNT). The pink city is experiencing very strong population growth, the highest in France and even the highest in Europe.