Editing Toulouse (section)

==Culture==
[[File:Halle aux grains Toulouse.jpg|thumb|The ''Halle aux grains'', a former grain market now used as a concert hall]]

The [[Théâtre du Capitole]] is the home of opera and ballet; there has been a theatre on the site since 1736.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.theatre-du-capitole.fr/1/le-theatre/l-univers-du-theatre/l-histoire.html?lang=fr |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130217133513/http://www.theatre-du-capitole.fr/1/le-theatre/l-univers-du-theatre/l-histoire.html?lang=fr |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 February 2013 |title=L'univers du Théâtre |publisher=Theatre-du-capitole.fr |access-date=14 March 2011 }}</ref> The [[Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse|Orchestre National du Capitole]], long associated with [[Michel Plasson]], plays at the Halle aux Grains.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.onct.mairie-toulouse.fr/ |title=Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse |publisher=Onct.mairie-toulouse.fr |access-date=14 March 2011}}</ref> On 31 October 2023, Toulouse was named [[City of Music (UNESCO)|UNESCO City of Music]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/55-new-cities-join-unesco-creative-cities-network-world-cities-day?lang=en |title=55 new cities join the UNESCO Creative Cities Network on World Cities Day |publisher=UNESCO |access-date=31 October 2023 }}</ref>

[[Le château d'eau, pôle photographique de Toulouse|Le Château d'Eau]],<ref name="Château d'Eau">{{cite web |url=http://www.galeriechateaudeau.org/ |title='''''Le Château d'Eau''''' Official website |language=fr |publisher=Galeriechateaudeau.org |access-date=1 October 2013 |archive-date=8 March 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110308150450/http://www.galeriechateaudeau.org/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> an old 19th-century water-tower, was converted as a gallery in 1974 by Jean Dieuzaide, a French photographer from Toulouse and is now one of the oldest public places dedicated to photography in the world. Toulouse's art museums include the [[Musée des Augustins]], the [[Musée des Abattoirs]], the [[Musée Georges Labit]], and the [[Fondation Bemberg]] in the [[Hôtel d'Assézat]]. The [[Musée Saint-Raymond]] is devoted to Antiquity and the [[Muséum de Toulouse]] to natural history.

Toulouse is the seat of the [[Académie des Jeux Floraux]], the equivalent of the [[French Academy]] for the Occitan-speaking regions of southern France, making Toulouse the unofficial capital of [[Occitania|Occitan culture]]. The traditional [[Occitan cross|Cross of Toulouse]] (from Provence, under the name of cross of Provence), emblem of the County of Toulouse and commonly widespread around all of Occitania during the Middle Ages is the symbol of the city and of the newly founded Midi-Pyrénées ''région'', as well as a popular Occitan symbol.

The city's gastronomic specialties include the [[Saucisse de Toulouse]], a type of [[sausage]], ''[[cassoulet]]'' Toulousain, a bean and pork [[stew]], and ''[[garbure]]'', a cabbage soup with poultry. Also, [[foie gras]], the liver of an overfed duck or goose, is a delicacy commonly made in the Midi-Pyrénées.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://foiegras-factsandtruth.com/heritage/the-production-regions|title=The production regions|website=foiegras-factsandtruth.com|access-date=4 February 2019}}</ref>