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Les Jacobins Toulouse monastery complex is the largest of its kind in France. The Church of the Jacobins, built after 1230, was the first convent built by the Order of Preachers, a mendicant order founded in 1215 in Toulouse by Dominique de Guzmán, the future Saint Dominic, to fight against the Cathar heresy. The complex was the home of the Dominican monks (called “Jacobins” in France) of Toulouse. The building is entirely made of bricks, with a strong contrast between its austere exterior and the lightness of the interior architecture where the famous palm-tree ribs thrust upwards. There is also a beautiful cloister.

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Les Jacobins Toulouse monastery complex is the largest of its kind in France. The Church of the Jacobins, built after 1230, was the first convent built by the Order of Preachers, a mendicant order founded in 1215 in Toulouse by Dominique de Guzmán, the future Saint Dominic, to fight against the Cathar heresy. The complex was the home of the Dominican monks (called “Jacobins” in France) of Toulouse. The building is entirely made of bricks, with a strong contrast between its austere exterior and the lightness of the interior architecture where the famous palm-tree ribs thrust upwards. There is also a beautiful cloister.