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