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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 Touraine, and Tours.

Given the importance of its heritage, three articles are devoted to Tours: Tours East (south of the 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 of the Loire).

Marmoutier Abbey was founded in 372 by St. Martin. In the 9th century it was ravaged by the Normans. Its restoration began in 860. Portal Crosse (13th century) This is a five-arched arches surmounted by a gallery of defense.

The bell tower is one of the buildings that escaped the demolition of the 19th century.

Its rectangular enclosure of the 14th century has preserved a few towers.

The church of Saint-Symphorien, built in the 12th century (the transept, apse and three-sided tower), was enlarged in the 15th century (nave of four bays and collateral) .

portal His date of 1567.

It has two wooden doors with carved panels.

His entourage is carved in stone.

In the Rue Saint-Gatien, the Church of St. Radegund (which is semi-cave), built in the 12th century (choir vault, vaulted apse-dome and bell tower) was enlarged in the 16th century (nave) and restored in the 19th century.

Great Bretèche home community of the Dominican Sisters of the Presentation of Tours.

Former Major Seminary contains a community of Capuchin father. The chapel is visible from the street Losserand.

Church of Christ the King (Avenue Andre Maginot-) was constructed in 1930.

As the 20th century, the chapel Notre-Dame de l'Europe is located in the rue du Maine.

Losserand In the street, the Hotel St. Catherine in the 15th century.

His right corner post bears a wooden statue representing St. Catherine protected by a canopy.

This street is lined with a few half-timbered houses.

Located between the Wilson Bridge (or stone bridge) and the Avenue of the trench, place Choiseul offers four more flags of the granting of the 18th century.

At 35, quai Paul Bert, the Manufacture of Three Weaving Tours (Georges Le Manach facility) was one of the few vestiges silks Tours. It was founded in 1829 in a former post-18th century. The silk industry of Tours was established in 1470 under the leadership of Louis XI and peaked in the 16th century.

Place du President-Coty, the memorial of Saint-Symphorien (attached to Joint Tours in 1964) was sculpted by Francois Sicard.

Lasalle Cemetery (the largest of Tours) contains graves remarkable as that of the architect Victor Laloux (1850-1937). Laloux designed by himself, it was sculpted by Henri Varenne.

The grave of Victor Lasalle aviator, died in Bir Al-Amar, Libya, December 15, 1929, was conducted by Georges Delpérier.

This tomb is that of railroad worker Francis Boileau died in an accident at Diss railway sub-Courcillon in Sarthe, 30 March 1878. The locomotive he was driving was precipitated with the cars of the train, in the Loir in spate following the destruction of an arch of a bridge. This accident is that the sculptor has represented.

On the Street Colombier, going towards the airport of Tours, this porch pigeon-timbered 15th century is located in advance of a barn from the same period (including the roof burned).