Perpignan was the big winner on Sunday as Europe's leading rugby clubs completed the pool stage of the Heineken Cup, rugby union's equivalent of soccer's Champions League, over the weekend. For years, it has hankered after the possibility of taking a big match across the border to Barcelona, pulling in the extra income that can come with playing in...
PARIS -- If sporting greatness consists of grace under pressure, the rugby players of Toulouse showed themselves to be great in winning the Heineken European Cup -- their sport's equivalent of soccer's Champions League -- by beating their fellow French club Biarritz, 21-19, in Paris. The decisive moment came in the 48th minute, when Toulouse's...
THERE'S nothing like a dose of medieval barbarism to give you a hearty appetite. Under the noonday sun, I was scrambling up a rugged mountain trail toward four stone towers called the Châteaux de Lastours, each one perched on a perilous crag, when it struck me that I should have had more than a croissant and café au lait for breakfast. Of course,...
Toulouse er en by i Frankrig. Byen kaldes desuden "la ville rose", som betyder "den lyserøde by", fordi mange af dens bygninger er bygget med røde mursten. Universitet blev grundlagt i 1228.
Byen er hovedstaden i Occitanie. Den er central for europæisk flyindustri, da flyfabrikken Airbus, har hovedsæde her.