Tours
Tours is a city on the Loire River in the centre of France. It has about 143,000 inhabitants. It is the prefecture (administrative headquarters) of the department of Indre-et-Loire and is one of the 22 French metropolis.
Notable natives and residents
[change | change source]- Honoré de Balzac 1799-1850, novelist
- René Descartes 1596-1650, scientist, mathematician and philosopher
Sister cities
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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.svg/23px-Flag_of_Canada_(Pantone).svg.png)
Trois-Rivières, Canada, since 1987
Takamatsu, Japan, since 1988
Braşov, Romania, since 1990- Minneapolis, USA, since 1991
Related pages
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- Bourg-en-Bresse (Ain)
- Laon (Aisne)
- Moulins (Allier)
- Digne-les-Bains (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence)
- Gap (Hautes-Alpes)
- Nice (Alpes-Maritimes)
- Privas (Ardèche)
- Charleville-Mézières (Ardennes)
- Foix (Ariège)
- Troyes (Aube)
- Carcassonne (Aude)
- Rodez (Aveyron)
- Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône)
- Caen (Calvados)
- Aurillac (Cantal)
- Angoulême (Charente)
- La Rochelle (Charente-Maritime)
- Bourges (Cher)
- Tulle (Corrèze)
- Ajaccio (Corse-du-Sud)
- Bastia (Haute-Corse)
- Dijon (Côte-d'Or)
- Saint-Brieuc (Côtes-d'Armor)
- Guéret (Creuse)
- Périgueux (Dordogne)
- Besançon (Doubs)
- Valence (Drôme)
- Évreux (Eure)
- Chartres (Eure-et-Loir)
- Quimper (Finistère)
- Nîmes (Gard)
- Toulouse (Haute-Garonne)
- Auch (Gers)
- Bordeaux (Gironde)
- Montpellier (Hérault)
- Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine)
- Châteauroux (Indre)
- Tours (Indre-et-Loire)
- Grenoble (Isère)
- Lons-le-Saunier (Jura)
- Mont-de-Marsan (Landes)
- Blois (Loir-et-Cher)
- Saint-Étienne (Loire)
- Le Puy-en-Velay (Haute-Loire)
- Nantes (Loire-Atlantique)
- Orléans (Loiret)
- Cahors (Lot)
- Agen (Lot-et-Garonne)
- Mende (Lozère)
- Angers (Maine-et-Loire)
- Saint-Lô (Manche)
- Châlons-en-Champagne (Marne)
- Chaumont (Haute-Marne)
- Laval (Mayenne)
- Nancy (Meurthe-et-Moselle)
- Bar-le-Duc (Meuse)
- Vannes (Morbihan)
- Metz (Moselle)
- Nevers (Nièvre)
- Lille (Nord)
- Beauvais (Oise)
- Alençon (Orne)
- Arras (Pas-de-Calais)
- Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dôme)
- Pau (Pyrénées-Atlantiques)
- Tarbes (Hautes-Pyrénées)
- Perpignan (Pyrénées-Orientales)
- Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin)
- Colmar (Haut-Rhin)
- Lyon (Rhône)
- Vesoul (Haute-Saône)
- Mâcon (Saône-et-Loire)
- Le Mans (Sarthe)
- Chambéry (Savoie)
- Annecy (Haute-Savoie)
- Paris (Paris)
- Rouen (Seine-Maritime)
- Melun (Seine-et-Marne)
- Versailles (Yvelines)
- Niort (Deux-Sèvres)
- Amiens (Somme)
- Albi (Tarn)
- Montauban (Tarn-et-Garonne)
- Toulon (Var)
- Avignon (Vaucluse)
- La Roche-sur-Yon (Vendée)
- Poitiers (Vienne)
- Limoges (Haute-Vienne)
- Épinal (Vosges)
- Auxerre (Yonne)
- Belfort (Territoire de Belfort)
- Évry (Essonne)
- Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine)
- Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis)
- Créteil (Val-de-Marne)
- Cergy, Pontoise (Val-d'Oise)
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