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Les Jacobins Toulouse monastery complex is the largest of its kind in France. The cloister. The project began in 1230, and was carried out in different stages. In this building entirely made of bricks, the contrast between its massive or even austere aspect of the exterior and the extraordinary lightness of the interior architecture where the famous palm-tree ribs thrust upwards.

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Les Jacobins Toulouse monastery complex is the largest of its kind in France. The cloister. The project began in 1230, and was carried out in different stages. In this building entirely made of bricks, the contrast between its massive or even austere aspect of the exterior and the extraordinary lightness of the interior architecture where the famous palm-tree ribs thrust upwards.