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This extraordinary museum – an absolute gem! – spotlights France's renowned compagnonnages, guild organisations of skilled craftspeople who have created…
Must-see attractions in Tours
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This superb fine-arts museum, in a gorgeous 18th-century archbishop’s palace, features paintings, sculpture, furniture and objets d'art from the 14th to…
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With its flying buttresses, gargoyles and twin Renaissance-style towers (70m) – and, inside, Gothic vaulting, dazzling stained glass and huge baroque…
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Founded in 1843, Tours' delightful 5-hectare botanical gardens have a tropical greenhouse, a medicinal herb garden, a small zoo and children's playgrounds…
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Hidden behind an Italianate façade, this gorgeous early-Renaissance residence – visible through a stone gate – was built for a wealthy merchant around…
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In the Middle Ages, Tours was an important pilgrimage city thanks to the relics of soldier-turned-evangelist St Martin (c 317–97). In the 5th century a…
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This cloister, built from 1442 to 1524 – that's why it's partly Flamboyant Gothic and party Renaissance – is located on the north side of the Cathédrale…
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Built from 1896 to 1904, Tours' monumental city hall was designed to project both republican values and municipal prestige.
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One of the last vestiges of Tours' 13th-century, Romanesque Basilique St-Martin.
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Built in the 1840s, Tours' neoclassical courthouse has an imposing colonnade facing place Jean Jaurès.
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Most of this Gothic church, once part of a Benedictine abbey, dates from the mid-1200s.
