Tours: City and commune in Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire, France
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
- Honoré de Balzac 1799-1850, novelist
- René Descartes 1596-1650, scientist, mathematician and philosopher
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
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