Notre-Dame-la-Riche Church

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.

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 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.

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

Tours Métropole Val de Loire is the métropole, an intercommunal structure, centred on the city of Tours. It is located in the Indre-et-Loire department, in the Centre-Val de Loire region, central France. It was created in March 2017, replacing the previous Communauté urbaine Tour(S) Plus. Its area is 389.2 km2. Its population was 294,220 in 2018, of which 136,463 in Tours proper.

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.

Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ siʁ syʁ lwaʁ] , literally Saint-Cyr on Loire) is a commune in the department of Indre-et-Loire in central France.It is located northwest of Tours on the other side of the Loire. It is the third largest city in the Indre-et-Loire department, behind Tours and Joué-lès-Tours.

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.

The Jardin botanique de Tours (5 hectares) is a municipal botanical garden and arboretum located at 33, Boulevard Tonnellé, Tours, Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire, France. It is open daily; admission is free. The garden was established by public subscription in 1843 at the initiative of pharmacist Jean-Anthyme Margueron (1771–1848), and is the oldest public garden in the city. In response to the 1841 creation of the city's Hospice Général et de l’Ecole Préparatoire de Pharmacie, it began as a collection of about 2,000 medical and exotic plants arranged in greenhouses (containing about 500 plants), orchard, and garden proper. It was flooded by the Loire in 1848 and again in 1856, to a depth of 2 metres, which required rebuilding the garden and replacing most of its trees. In 1863 an orangery and animal park were added, and then in 1890 new greenhouses (cold, temperate, and hot) under the direction of Louis Madelin, with the garden's first seed catalog published in 1901. The greenhouses were damaged by bombardments in World War II. The garden currently contains about 2,000 taxa, organized as follows: North - regular parterres along an avenue of magnolias, with a pool containing water lilies and lotus; renovated in 1980 to contain theme gardens and a phylogenetic garden. East - bulbs, rhizomes, and perennials, as well as a garden of plant evolution. South - an excellent arboretum in the English style, a pond, and a "garden of simples" as in medieval gardens. West - heath, bog, Mediterranean garden, and alpine garden.The garden also contains an orangery, exhibition greenhouses, and a small space for animals.

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.