Toulouse - Notre Dame de la Daurade

In Toulouse, from the Hôtel de Bernuy, Rue J.- Suau runs southwest to the Place de la Daurade, with views of the Garonne, the Pont- Neuf (1543-1614) and the St-Cyprien district across the river. On the banks of the Garonne is the Baroque church of Notre-Dame-de-la- Daurade, built in 1773-1790 on the site of an earlier 12th C. church. Southeast is the church of Notre-Dame-de-la-Dalbade (1503-1545), with a large Renaissance doorway of 1537. Farther south is the Hôtel de Pierre (16th and 17th C.), and to the east of this the Hôtel Béringuier-Maynier (1517-1527), the earliest example of the so-called "Toulouse Renaissance" style. Around this church and in all this quarter of the town are many handsome old houses.