Arriving in Toulouse

Toulouse is the third largest city in France with over 500,000 inhabitants. Toulouse is the centre of the European aerospace industry, with the headquarters of Airbus, the SPOT satellite system, ATR and the Aerospace Valley. It hosts the CNES’s Toulouse Space Centre (CST) which is the largest national space centre in Europe, but also, on the military side, the newly created NATO space centre of excellence and the French Space Command and Space Academy. See also Toulouse in Wikipedia.

Location of Toulouse in Europe – Data from OpenStreetMap. Creative Commons Attribution – Partage à l’identique v2.0 (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Getting to Toulouse via Toulouse-Blagnac International Airport.

National Company of the French Railways website: https://www.sncf-connect.com/en-en
Flixbus website: https://shop.global.flixbus.com/

Public transport

The metro and bus network in Toulouse are managed by Tisseo.