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.
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Notable natives and residents
change- Honoré de Balzac 1799-1850, novelist
- René Descartes 1596-1650, scientist, mathematician and philosopher
Sister cities
change- 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