Toulouse has been named as one of the top 30 destinations in the World in Lonely Planet‘s “Best in Travel 2025”!
Toulouse (31 Haut Garonne, Occitanie) is known as the Pink City but violet is the colour for February.
Fête de la Violette 22 – 23 February 2025
Every year in February, during the flowering season of this highly-perfumed little flower, the Festival de la Violette is organised by Les Amis de la Violette.
The violet is the emblematic flower of Toulouse, and has been cultivated by the market gardeners in the north of the city since the 19th century. Nowadays, “La Violette de Toulouse” is a registered trademark, to be found on a wide variety of products (sweets, perfume, liqueur, etc.) and offers an excellent reason to celebrate as well as to explore Toulouse – the City of Violets!
For more info see www.uk.toulouse-tourisme.com
Often referred to as “Paris in miniature,” Toulouse is a maze-like city overflowing with art galleries in repurposed industrial spaces, excellent food and scenic river and canal banks. Time your visit for the 2025 reopening of Musée des Augustins, a 14th-century cloistered convent that has been a beacon of Toulouse’s art scene since 1795. (Lonely Planet)
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