Tours
Wilson bridge in Tours over the Loire River
Tours is a city on the Loire River in the centre of France. It has about 143,000 inhabitants. It is the prefecture (administrative headquarters) of the department of Indre-et-Loire and is one of the 22 French metropolis.
Notable natives and residents
- Honoré de Balzac 1799-1850, novelist
- René Descartes 1596-1650, scientist, mathematician and philosopher
Sister cities
Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany, since 1962
Segovia, Spain, since 1972
Parma, Italy, since 1976
Luoyang, People's Republic of China, since 1982
Springfield, USA, since 1984
Trois-Rivières, Canada, since 1987
Takamatsu, Japan, since 1988
Braşov, Romania, since 1990- Minneapolis, USA, since 1991
Tours Media
Place Plumereau, Medieval buildings
Tours Cathedral: 15th-century Flamboyant Gothic west front with Renaissance pinnacles, completed 1547.
Hôtel de Ville, Place Jean Jaurès
St Gatien Cathedral, from Rue Lavoisier, just north of the Rue Colbert intersection.
Pont Wilson crosses the river Loire at the old civic core
Tram model, design by the French agency RCP Design Global
Venerable Leo Dupont, Holy Man of Tours
Louise de la Vallière, 17th.C
General Régis de Trobriand, 1865
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