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Our City
Toulouse
Toulouse is a really pretty city located in southwestern France. With more than one million of inhabitants whom around 200 000 students, Toulouse is the fourth largest city in France. Really well known thanks to AIRBUS and EADS corporation, Toulouse is also at the cutting edge of the Biology. As a matter of fact Toulouse hosts “L’oncopole de Toulouse”, the largest cancer research centre in Europe and a lot of more different laboratories such as the “LISBP” or “TWB”.
Besides, Toulouse is a really pleasant city to live in as student or worker, in the middle of all the red brick houses, the wise walks along the river “Garonne”, and the several small traditionnal restaurants. People can also discover the famous “Place du Capitole”, place where all the most important events takes place.