Couvent des Jacobins de Toulouse

This Gothic convent church of the Dominican order is celebrated for its soaring interior and a single central column from which stone ribs fan out like a palm tree across the vault. Built largely of the city's characteristic pink brick, it once housed the studies of a great medieval theologian whose relics rest here. Beside the church, a serene cloister with slender twin columns surrounds a quiet garden. The play of light through the tall windows onto the palm-vault ceiling is among the most admired sights in Toulouse.