Tours , former capital of the Gauls Turones, became, around 20 BC, a Gallo-Roman town known as
Caesarodunum (the hill of Caesar). In 374, the city is the metropolis of the Roman province of the Third Lyonnaise. Its inhabitants are called the Touraine and the Tourangelles.
GPS Tours: 0 ° 41'01 "E - 47 ° 23'34" N Given the importance of its heritage, three articles are devoted to Tours: Tours East (south of Loire and east of the axis rue Nationale - Avenue de Grammont), Tours West (south of the Loire and west of the axis rue Nationale - Avenue de Grammont) and Tours North (at north of the Loire). From the Basilica of St. Martin rebuilt in the 11th century, there remains, in the Rue des Halles, the Tour Charlemagne (which had partially collapsed March 26, 1928) ...
... and the clock tower partly rebuilt in the late 12th century.
The new Basilica of Saint Martin (rue Descartes) was built to plans by architect Victor Laloux between 1887 and 1902. The style is Romano-Byzantine.
In its crypt contains the tomb of St. Martin.
The choir is surmounted by a dome pendants.
At 4 rue Rapin, this former canonical house of Saint-Martin was built in the 13th century (making it perhaps the oldest house in Tours). The north side of the rectangular house has an arched door. This facade has been partially restored in the 20th century using a drawing of Gatian Clerambault. In the early 20th century, the door had been changed (it became rectangular) and, upstairs, the middle window was walled up.
In the neighborhood of the Old Town, the place Plumereau (locally called instead Plum ') is surrounded by several half-timbered houses from the 15th Century (2 to 10 rue du Grand Marché).
The corner house at 2 rue du Change in the 15th century.
Its pillars and corner posts have several wooden sculptures: the Holy Family ...
... Monk ...
... a king off his throne.
At the corner of Exchange Street and Grill, a 15th century house is fully timber framed.
On the Place Saint-Pierre-le-Puellier, excavations have unearthed the remains from the Gallo-Roman times to the late Middle Ages.
On this square you can see two staircase turrets.
the right of the turrets, you can see the remains of the ancient collegiate church of Saint-Pierre-le-Puellier (12th and 15th centuries).
Briçonnet at 29 Street, this 14th century house has a turret staircase timber-framed 15th century.
At 32 rue Briçonnet, a wood-framed house dating from the 16th century presents ...
... a left corner post with a statue of St. Paul ...
... corner post a right with a statue of St. Peter ...
... and a stair turret outside work openwork.
Briçonnet at 16 Street, is the House of Tristan the Hermit (the Provost, or rather the executioner of Louis XI), which certainly did not build this house. Flemish Gothic style, it dates from 1498 and is also known as the Hotel Pierre du Puy.
On his wall, the pattern carved the cord was very popular after the widow of Anne de Bretagne. This pattern has justified the third name of this house: House of Cords.
The church of Saint-Saturnin (rue Littré) was built in 1473. It comprises a nave of seven bays, a choir with flat bed, north and south aisles (the latter 19th century). Originally, it was the church of the former convent of the Discalced Carmelites.
At 22 rue du Petit-Saint-Martin, the chapel of Little St. Martin was built in the 14th century and restored in 1977.
At 11 rue Constantine, home of the Crescent (15th century) has a cantilevered floor is wood and slabs.
At 15 Place de Chateauneuf, the Hotel des Ducs de Touraine, 12th century but has undergone revisions in the 15th and 16th centuries.
At 56 Place du Grand Marché, there remains only the gate of the 15th century former hotel of Treasurers of St. Martin and the gable above it .
The Notre Dame la Riche (Georges Street Courteline), rebuilt in the 15th century (choir flat bed) has been changed to 16th (double side) and 19th centuries (nave and south porch ). She kept the Crypt (known tomb of St Gatien) of the former 12th century church.
At 24 rue Georges-Courteline, home of the Dolphin (15th century) would have sheltered in 1418, the Dauphin (the future Charles VII).
It has carved corner posts.
At 72 rue Georges-Courteline, the former convent of the Annunciation has been largely destroyed. Purchased by the Grand Orient de France in 1907, the remaining building was converted into a Masonic lodge. Its facade was completed in the Renaissance Revival style by the sculptor Henri Varenne Touraine.
Rue André Duchesne, a 16th century house was a hospital (or Alms of the Holy Spirit) until 1624. In 1736, she is transformed into a hostel.
At the end West Boulevard Beranger, the church of St. Eloi was built in the 12th century and then modified in the 15th century. It was the church of St. Eloi Benedictine priory. It now houses the Municipal Historical Archives of the city of Tours.
the street Jules Charpentier, this building, announcing
Art Deco, was built in 1910 following plans of architect Frederick Wielhorsky Duthoo for Arthur, owner of the bazaar .
at 15 rue du Champ de Mars, the Blue Star was a brothel (early 20th century). It contains frescoes naive style of painting Jacquemin 1925.
On the house, 8 rue des Oiseaux, one can observe the ancient sundial.
Botanical Garden Tours (5 hectares), created between 1831 and 1843, offers many remarkable trees including a magnificent
Ginkgo biloba (or tree of forty crowns) offered in 1845 by Dr. Bretonneau stone. It measures 23 meters high and its trunk has a circumference of 6.70 m to 30 cm of soil.
There are also some species of exotic birds.
Garden of Prebendes of Oe (five acres) was made in 1872 by the Bühler brothers around the stream of the Archbishop. The bandstand in 1890 was the work of the house Perrin (Pas-de-Calais).
In this same garden, a monument, created by Michel Audiard
, recalled that the African poet Leopold Sedar Senghor was, from 1935 to 1938, professor of French, Latin and Greek at Lycée Descartes in Tours.
Tours has its vane whose central part represents the Wilson bridge (or bridge Pierre).
Features:
- Hotel Gouin (15th century): 25 rue du Commerce. In 1738, the Breton family Gouin bought this hotel to a silk merchant. He also brought the hotel name Barguin.
- Binet Hotel (16th and 17th centuries): 10 rue Paul-Louis Courier. Binet Jerome is a former mayor of Tours.
- Quantin Hotel Robinson (16th century): 15 rue Paul-Louis Courier
- the hotel or the Righteous Giusti (16th century): 17 rue Paul-Louis Courier
- Museum of Natural History: 3 rue du President-Merville
- ...
Shield of Tours
Ants Anse-La Digue-East 
Banana Anse-La Digue-East 
Sweet Anse-La Digue-North 
Anse Gaulettes North-east of La Digue 
Anse Source d ' Argent-La Digue- 
Takamaka South Anse Mahe 
North Point Mahe 
Grand Anse West Mahe 
Beau Vallon, NW Mahe-
Anse Boileau Mahe West 
Anse Quartermaster South West Mahe- 
Port Launay West Mahé- 
Baie St Anne Praslin 
Anse Madge-East of Praslin 
Anse Lazio Praslin Northeast- 
Anse Boudin 
Anse Georgette North-west of Praslin- 
Anse Kerlan West Praslin- 
Anse Volbert- North-East of Praslin 
Anse La Blague, Praslin East 
