Tours facts for kids

Wilson bridge in Tours over the Loire River

coat of arms

Tours is a city in the centre of France. It has about 143,000 inhabitants.

Sister cities

• Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany, since 1962
• Segovia, Spain, since 1972
• Parma, Italy, since 1976
• Luoyang, People's Republic of China, since 1982
• Springfield, USA, since 1984
• Trois-Rivières, Canada, since 1987
• Takamatsu, Japan, since 1988
• Braşov, Romania, since 1990
• Minneapolis, USA, since 1991

Related pages

• Capital of France

Images for kids

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  Place Plumereau, Medieval buildings

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  Tours Cathedral: 15th-century Flamboyant Gothic west front with Renaissance pinnacles, completed 1547.

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  Place Jean Jaurès

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  Tram model, design by the French agency RCP Design Global

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  Venerable Leo Dupont, Holy Man of Tours

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  Honoré de Balzac (1842)

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  General Régis de Trobriand