HOTEL PALLADIA

While journeying through the Pink Town come and discover this luxurious establishment, so perfectly place near the city center, the Blagnac International Airport, and the Zenith. The hotel offers 90 rooms and suites with air conditioning, a gastronomic restaurant and a large conference area. The staff of The Paladia Hotel will ensure your visit is quite unforgettable. The old capital of Languedoc and France's fourth largest city, Toulouse (known as la ville en rose, or the city in pink today is cosmopolitan in flavor. The major city of the southwest, it's the gateway to the Pyrénées mountain range. Toulouse might be a city with a distinguished historical past, but it is also a city of the future and the high tech center of the aerospace industry in France. It is home to two huge aircraft makers Airbus and Aérospatiale and the National Center for Space Research has been headquartered here for more than 3 decades. The first regularly scheduled airline flights from France took off from the local airport in the 1920s. Today long range passenger planes of the Airbus consortium, the most important rivals in the world to Boeing, are assembled in a gargantuan hangar in the suburb of Colombiers. In 1997, Toulouse launched an air and space museum (see the entry below for La Cité de Espace. Also making the city tick is its extraordinarily high population of students: some 100,000 in all, out of a population of 600,000.