![]() This room, Salle des Pèlerins / Pilgrims (bottom left photo), was quite large with wooden ceiling and had some paintings on the walls like a museum.Īfter using the toilet I proceeded to the second room, Salle des Colonnes / Columns (bottom center photo), as it also has a toilet attached to it. From the floor plan I knew there was a toilet attached to it, so why don't I just go use the toilet? OMG, shall I enter? I could see from the door that there was nobody in the first historical room. For a few minutes I was milling around the foyer, looking like a patient, and then started seeing some workers going in and out of the door.Ī few more minutes later, one of the workers left the door wide open, making the "No Entrance" sign no longer visible. But this door to the historical rooms was closed and had the sign "No Entrance" on it. There was also a floor plan of the building at the foyer. The virtual tour on the website was like a free guide app on my phone for my visit and looked inviting with flashing arrows, and I knew that the door to the three historical rooms was right at the foyer. The foyer itself looked pretty historical. I walked around the courtyard (top photo) with a large shell as a symbol of hospitality (according to their website) in the middle and noticed the historical entrance with a statue of St. OK, well, I'd still go there to see the hospital from outside anyway and to take photos. They said that it was a working hospital and not normally a place for tourists to visit, but only once a year, on the World Heritage Day in September, they opened it up for the public. ![]() So the first thing I did in Toulouse was to visit the tourist info office behind Le Capitole / City Hall and to enquire how. The building, still used today as the administrations for the Toulouse Hospitals and Toulouse University Hospital, has a website where they mention its WH status, even with a virtual tour of the three historical rooms.īut it does not say how we can actually see them in reality. I tried to find the best way to see this place and did some research. So when I found myself again in Toulouse in winter 2022, I made sure to visit it. If you are in Toulouse, you would want to visit both the two components, right? I was in Toulouse in summer 2022 and visited Basilique Saint-Sernin but failed to visit this hospital. I have visited 11 (Paris, Amiens, Mont Saint-Michel, Vézelay, Asquins, Clermont-Ferrand, Poitiers, Bourges, Toulouse-2, Gavarnie) out of the 78 components, but here I will talk about just one of them, Hôtel-Dieu Saint-Jacques in Toulouse, as it has not been much talked about previously.
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