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Toulouse; The Saint Sernin Basilica

The early Christian history of the city was preserved in three great and proud churches, all founded by the fifth century and each with it's speacial lustre - the church of St Saturninus or Saint-Sernin, where the tomb of the martyred Early Christian bishop of the city was preserved, the cathedral of Saint-Ètienne which stood close to the Gallo-Roman rampart, and the ancient church of La Daurade, earliest sanctuary in Christian Gual dedicated to the Virgin.

The County of Toulouse often dissociated itself form Aquitaine. Toulouse's history as a city lies in the past as an ancient strong hold of the Visigoths. Later in transition, had it become a capital for the Franks, under two dynasties the Merovingian and Carolingian. The years 1070 - 1170 stand as the identifiable Millennium in which most scholars and researchers focus their attention. It can be said that during that time Toulouse became a recognizable city from the Middle Ages.

No other such concentration of examples exists from the Romanesque period. The Toulouse cloisters are, moreover, of special importance because they stand at the beginning of the developments in the historiated cloister as principal context for monumental sculpture. However documentation needed to accurately track specific dates of the development of the churches is quite a complex.