Tours Métropole Val de Loire

Touraine (US: ; French: [tuʁɛn]) is one of the traditional provinces of France. Its capital was Tours. During the political reorganization of French territory in 1790, Touraine was divided between the departments of Indre-et-Loire, Loir-et-Cher, Indre and Vienne.

The arrondissement of Tours is an arrondissement of France in the Indre-et-Loire department in the Centre-Val de Loire region. It has 54 communes. Its population is 384,117 (2016), and its area is 1,087.6 km2 (419.9 sq mi).

The Wilson Bridge, built between 1765 and 1778, is the oldest bridge in Tours. It features 15 arches and extends 434 meters (1,424 feet) across the Loire. Officially named the Wilson Bridge, it is commonly referred to by locals as the Pont de Pierre (Stone Bridge). It connects the south end of the Place Choiseul at the foot of the Avenue de la Tranchée to the north end of Place Anatole-France in front of Rue Nationale. The bridge is listed as a historic monument. It replaced the deteriorating Pont d'Eudes from the 11th century located further east, allowing its decommissioning and eventual replacement by the Passerelle Saint-Symphorien.

The Hôtel Goüin is a hôtel particulier in Tours, France.

The Tours Municipal Library (French: Bibliothèque municipale de Tours) is a historic building registered as a monument historique in France, designed by architects Pierre Patout, Jean Dorian, and Charles Dorian. Located at 2 bis, Avenue André-Malraux, it is near Place Anatole-France, the Wilson Bridge, and Rue Nationale, along the banks of the Loire River. The building now serves as the "Central Library" within the Tours library network, which includes seven libraries, a mediabus, and four documentation centers.

The Saint-Julien Abbey in Tours, France, is an ancient Benedictine abbey dating back to the 16th century. Today's buildings date from the 10th to the 16th century, and have all been classified or listed as historic monuments.

On May 23, 2023, an individual attacked the LGBT center in Tours, France, with an explosive device containing acid and aluminum. The attack resulted in no casualties as the people inside the center managed to move away from the device. An investigation for attempted murder has been opened. On June 1, 2023, the prime suspect, a 17-year-old integralist Catholic, was arrested.

The Archdiocese of Tours (Latin: Archidioecesis Turonensis; French: Archidiocèse de Tours) is a Latin Church archdiocese of the Catholic Church in France. The archdiocese has roots that go back to the 3rd century, while the formal erection of the diocese dates from the 5th century. The ecclesiastical province of Tours corresponds with the late Roman province of Tertia Lugdunensis. During Breton independence the see of Dol briefly exercised metropolitical functions (mainly tenth century). In 1859 the Breton dioceses except that of Nantes were constituted into a province of Rennes. Tours kept its historic suffragans of Le Mans, Angers together with Nantes and a newly constituted Diocese of Laval. In 2002 Tours lost all connection with its historic province, all its previous suffragans depending henceforth on an expanded province of Rennes (corresponding to the Brittany and Pays de la Loire administrative regions). Tours since 2002 has become the ecclesiastical metropolis of the Centre administrative region.

Île Aucard is an island on the Loire river, administratively belonging to the commune of Tours, France.

The Basilica of St. Martin is a Roman Catholic basilica dedicated to Saint Martin of Tours, over whose tomb it was built. It is located in Tours, France.The first basilica was established here in the 5th century (consecrated in 471) on the site of an earlier chapel. It was at first served by a community of monks under an abbot, the Abbot of St Martin, who between 796 and 804 was Alcuin, the adviser of Charlemagne. Shortly before this the monastic establishment was changed to a collegiate church manned by a community of canons, but the office and title of abbot persisted.The mediaeval basilica was completely demolished during the French Revolution. The present church was built between 1886 and 1924 by French architect Victor Laloux in a neo-Byzantine style, on part of the site of the original basilica which was repurchased by the Church. It was dedicated on July 4, 1925.

Saint-Clément Church (église Saint-Clément de Tours) was a parish church in the old town of Tours, France, not far from the Basilica of Saint Martin. It was located on what is now the northern part of place Gaston-Paillhou, with its north wall aligned with the façades along the south side of rue des Halles. It was built from 1462 to replace an earlier chapel promoted to a parish church. The French Revolutionaries stopped religious services there and in 1792 it was sold to the city as a grain market. It was demolished in 1883 as it had fallen into such a poor state that restoring it would be too expensive.

The Gallo-Roman baths of Tours were public bathhouses that, during the High Empire and for some until the end of the Roman Empire—none of them "survived" beyond that—were in operation in the ancient city of Caesarodunum, which would later become Tours. While these baths had long been widely accepted, their exact location began to be more clearly established in the 1980s. Two monumental complexes were partially uncovered during excavations conducted between 1974 and 1979 for one, located in the northeast of the open city of the High Empire, which archaeologists refer to as the "Eastern Baths," and between 1999 and 2002 for the other, located in the south and called the "Southern Baths." Although excavations have not determined their exact extent, they seem to be located on the periphery of the ancient city or, at the very least, away from the most densely built-up areas. The Southern Baths were probably situated along one of the main roads of Caesarodunum, while the Eastern Baths were built along the Loire River. One or even two other public baths, of smaller size, may have existed—one to the west of the city and another to the south—but the evidence for their existence is very weak. The architecture of all these bath complexes is poorly understood, as excavations have only revealed a very small portion of their structures. Likewise, the details of how they were connected to water supply and drainage networks remain highly uncertain. The remains of the Eastern Baths, which have been preserved, were reburied (it is possible to uncover them again in the future), whereas those of the Southern Baths were sealed under modern constructions after archaeological study. The rare masonry structures attributed to the baths located in the west are visible in an archaeological garden that traces the history of the site, which has been occupied almost continuously since Antiquity. The very tenuous evidence of a fourth thermal establishment disappeared after being studied.