Tours, France

Minato Ku · #1 Posted **Jun 23, 2010, 6:03 PM**

Tours is a city of 142,000 inh proper and 376,000 for the metropolitain area.
The city is located on the Loire and Cher rivers in the west of central France.
Tours is the capital of Indre-et-Loire department and the largest city of Centre region. (The capital city of the Centre is Orléans)

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le calmar · #2 Posted **Jun 23, 2010, 6:14 PM**

Nice set for one of my favorite city in France.

Coldrsx · #3 Posted **Jun 23, 2010, 6:51 PM**

beautiful tour, if but a little grey at the beginning.

SLO · #4 Posted **Jun 23, 2010, 7:40 PM**

Stunningly great.

SHiRO · #5 Posted **Jun 28, 2010, 4:18 PM**

Great!

You should do an inventory of all French cities you've done a photothread about. Just a list, maybe make a map next to it or something...

Nantais · #6 Posted **Jun 29, 2010, 12:12 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Minato Ku

The city is located on the Loire and Touraine rivers in the west of central France.

Great pics, but you mean "on the Loire and Cher rivers"... Touraine is not a river, it's the region around Tours.

Minato Ku · #7 Posted **Jun 29, 2010, 6:27 AM**

Yes I knew but I didn't reread the introduction before posting.

I was born in Cher departement in Bourges.

Quote:

Originally Posted by SHiRO

Great!

You should do an inventory of all French cities you've done a photothread about. Just a list, maybe make a map next to it or something...

Thanks you !

The Google map map is weird, some big city are cited as smaller than other large cities.
Grenoble is bigger than Saint Etienne but it doesn"t seem so in the map.

1:Arles
2:Nimes
Aix les Bain is near Chambery

Aix les Bains
Amiens
Annecy
Arles and Nimes
Avignon
Chambery
Clermont Ferrand
Dijon
Grenoble, part 1 2
Le Mans
Lille, part 1 2 3
Lyon, part 1 2 3 4
Marseille, part 1 2 3
Morières-lès-Avignon
Orléans
Rouen
Saint Étienne
Valence

Ex-Ithacan · #8 Posted **Jun 29, 2010, 1:39 PM**

I like the narrow streets/alleys and the density along them. I too wish the sun had helped more, but still nice to see this city. Thanks.

downtownpdx · #9 Posted **Jun 29, 2010, 6:35 PM**

Wow, sometimes I envy the pedestrian-friendly, cobblestone, narrow streets of European cities. Any U.S. city of the same population would never have the same vibrant streetlife. Great photos -- you really give a feel for the city. Thanks!

SHiRO · #10 Posted **Jun 29, 2010, 10:16 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Minato Ku

1:Arles
2:Nimes
Aix les Bain is near Chambery

Aix les Bains
Annecy
Arles and Nimes
Avignon
Chambery
Clermont Ferrand
Dijon
Grenoble, part 1 2
Lille, part 1 2 3
Lyon, part 1 2 3 4
Marseille, part 1 2 3
Morières-lès-Avignon
Orléans
Rouen
Saint Étienne
Valence

Great! Exactely what I meant!

Quote:

The Google map map is weird, some big city are cited as smaller than other large cities.
Grenoble is bigger than Saint Etienne but it doesn"t seem so in the map.

I think they're going by commune (municipality) and not aire urbain (metro area), in which case Saint Etienne indeed is bigger right?

ColDayMan · #11 Posted **Jun 30, 2010, 1:21 AM**

Yay

Yay

Minato Ku · #12 Posted **Jun 30, 2010, 7:29 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by SHiRO

I think they're going by commune (municipality) and not aire urbain (metro area), in which case Saint Etienne indeed is bigger right?

That's right but it is only because Saint Etienne is bigger in land size.
St Etienne : 178,530 inh (79.97 km²)
Grenoble : 156,793 inh (18.13 km²)

In the reality Grenoble (urban and metro area) is more populated than St Etienne,
It also feels much bigger.

agrant · #13 Posted **Jun 30, 2010, 10:48 PM**

Great photos. A couple close family members and I were in France a couple years ago. We were fortunate (or unfortunate) to drive through Tours, driving from Blois to Nantes. We did not intend to go through it (but around it), but we took a wrong turn... and ended up heading into Tours. My first impression was that it was a smaller version of Paris, more so than any other place I saw in France.

Swede · #14 Posted **Jul 1, 2010, 6:17 PM**

That first pic felt som familiar, then I realized I've actually been there!

Only for a few hours and it was an organized trip (the year I took architecture at KTH), but we got to hang out in that square and eat some righteous franch sandwiches. There was a baguetterie (sp?) just off the square, not so easy to order when I don't speak french

Your pics show me how much I missed, feels like I'd need a week of just walking around to get a sense of the place.

dktshb · #15 Posted **Jul 9, 2010, 5:18 AM**

Gorgeous and even more so when the sun comes out.