Location: Tours
Top Things to do in Tours
Top 10 Things to do in Tours, France
Tours in France, from Europe region, is best know for Sacred & Religious Sites. Discover best things to do in Tours with beautiful photos and great reviews from traveller around the world here!
Restaurants in Tours
1. Cathedrale St-Gatien
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 1 reviews
2. Musee du Compagnonnage
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 454 reviews
Reviewed By Waverunner2012
After visiting one after another cathedrals and chateaux, this museum intrigues different intellectual curiosities. It involves the designs and craftsmanship of the making of the cathedrals and chateaux, as well as the things inside of them and much more. Although it is hard to comprehend all the different areas of craftsmanship, the models, tools and drawings on display provide a general view of the depth of skills involved. The museum is not big, but packed with a variety of subjects. You would have a special appreciation of it if you are or interested in modern day freemasonry.
3. Jardins des Prebendes d'Oe
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 200 reviews
Reviewed By Duquesadiner - Glasgow
Load yourself up with bread, cheese, pate, salami, wine, water and chocolate and have your lunch in this park along with the ducks and students who seem to frequent it in the daytime. The Gardens are well maintained and clean and although there are no picnic tables there are ample seats so settle in and enjoy lunch in the open air and Sunshine if you are lucky.
4. Gadawi Park
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 105 reviews
Reviewed By RobinD-R
An oasis in the midst of a very drab area. We stayed at the Mercure Hotel nearby which is excellent.
5. Place Plumereau
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4.5 based on 941 reviews
Reviewed By Nitvoyodelo - Vineland, New Jersey
Tours is a charming, walkable town with well-preserved medieval buildings, many of them concentrated in the old part of this gastronomically delightful town. Place Plumereau is a square with rows of these distinct houses, half-timber, with shops or cafes on the ground floor. There is a Restaurant Leonardo de Vinci, where the artist supposedly lived for a while, which, however, was never open the three days we were in Tours.
6. Jardin Botanique de Tours
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 445 reviews
Reviewed By Sjl2912
We stopped hear just to have a mouch around tours and to sit and relax in the sun whilst traveling south. What a great place! Quiet relaxing areas plenty of park,benches scattered about. Then there are the birds and animals amazing and very interesting. My granddaughters would have loved it.
7. Hotel de Ville de Tours
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 329 reviews
Reviewed By Ralf K - Wurzburg, Germany
The city hall of Tours was built between 1896 and 1904 by the architect Victor Laloux from Tours which built a lot of other famous buildings in Tours. On the facade you will find four atlantes from Francois Sicard. Left and right of the clock there are two caryatids ( the day and the night) Further you will find extended characters which represents the Loire and the Cher. The two wings are decorated at the east side with the courage and the strength and at the western part the education and the vigilance. In the first floor inside of the council hall of the city there is a triptych about the life of Jeanne D`Arc by Jean- Paul Laurens ( 1901-1903 ). It is worth spending some time.
8. Basilique Saint Martin
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 351 reviews
Reviewed By Ralf K - Wurzburg, Germany
The current building has been constructed between 1886 and 1902 by the architect Victor Laloux in a neo-byzantin style. The crypt contains the Saint Martin von Tours and its known since centuries. The former Basilica was destroyed and in form of different colored paving stones and with its two still preserved towers you can imagine the huge dimensions of the old one. Inside you will find a monumental statue of St. Martin in bronze. There are wonderful murals too, so you shouldn't miss a visit if you will stay in this nice city of Tours.
9. Les Halles
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 89 reviews
10. Office de Tourisme de Tours
Overall Ratings
4 based on 259 reviews
Welcome at the Tourist Office of Tours. Information,things to do in Tours and Touraine, sihtseeings, restaurants, campsites and guided tours, accommodation, excursions by minibus to the Castles, bookings all year. Special offers, stays all included in Loire Valley.
Reviewed By GuidoLocattelli - Akron, Ohio
Many years ago long before the range of calendar dates suitable for indicating the time of my visit were made available for completing this review I made a first visit to this office. I found it to be a good place for speaking French and I did use the word "entourage" to explain the meaning of another English phase to the young lady who had asked me a question. I distinctly remember that exchange of information. At the time information about the region and city and other things important were written in French. I practiced my French and the people there were pleased to hear me speak their language. I would not say that they bore the brunt of my efforts to practice my French. Instead they were most grateful that I did not immediately begin talking to them in English. This was Europe on $5.00 a day. Much less expensive for sure. I used the city as a place to return to just to be able to find a place to sit down and read something about the city. I wanted to walk around the city. It was early summer and I had seen Versailles and Chartres and wanted to get away from the large crowds. I did not book any group tours or boat trips. I just wanted to know about directions and distances by train to see a few chateaux. I needed more than a map and information about train connections. I preferred too travel by train. But i asked them about their city and that was the essential part of my strategy in getting them to talk in French to me about things to see in their city. I learned about the large gothic Cathedral - St. Gathien - with its flamboyant looking west facade. I went to see it and never regretted it. There were a Musee des Beaux Arts with a triptych - two parts- by Andrea Mantegna and two other places worthy seeing dedicated to wines and craft guilds. If I needed a reason to get away from Paris the city of Tours did turn things around for me. I did ask about the their favorite topic - the university. I went to see it. This city was a prosperous center of the French nation many years ago like the Renaissance period of time and middle ages as I recall my French history. I felt proud to have studied French and History at college. But to return to the office for tourism I said to myself at the time that this office was operated by young friendly people who wanted to speak with me about their city and I was willing to listen as I played with the cards that were dealt. It was a good tourist information center for me. In many respects this office was a like a small library for me. I did not want to be seen munching on three sandwiches and drinking a milk shake as I entered the building. Conditions for traveling here have changed in most ways since I took my first trip there so many years ago. Much less commercialism for sure. The gift shop was nothing to distract me from doing what I had wanted to do there. It was a small tasteful display of things French. Go there for information.
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