Located on the eponymous square in the heart of the historic center of Toulouse the Jacobin convent takes place between the Capitol and the Garonne. Ranked historic monument, the entire early thirteenth century consists of a church, a cloister, a chapter house, a refectory and chapel Saint-Antonin.
Built by the Order of Preachers, it is made entirely of brick. Gem of Languedoc Gothic art, it houses in his church since the second half of the fourteenth century the relics of St. Thomas Aquinas. The latter has long been regarded as the most beautiful Dominican church of Western Europe with his palm close to thirty meters of single height in the world. Inside, it is possible to admire a beautiful polychrome decoration. Its steeple measuring forty-five meters high and was built on the model of Saint-Sernin nearby.
Difficult not to succumb to the quiet of the cloister of the fourteenth century with its colonnaded marble gray Beatus and carved capitals. The chapter house and refectory no lack either interest, including with temporary exhibitions sheltered by it.
Built in the mid-fourteenth century, the Saint-Antonin chapel is decorated with tempera unveiling the second vision of the Apocalypse.
