Tours: facts

At a glance

• Country: France
• Region: Centre-Val de Loire
• Administrative status: seat of a second-order administrative division (GeoNames code PPLA2)
• Population: approximately 141,621
• Coordinates: 47.3948° N, 0.7040° E
• Time zone: Europe/Paris (UTC+01:00 standard, UTC+02:00 daylight saving time)
• Currency: Euro (EUR)
• Distance to the capital, Paris: 203 km (126 mi), straight line

Getting there

• Tours Val de Loire Airport (TUF): 4.5 km (2.8 mi), straight line
• Le Mans-Arnage Airport (LME): 72 km (45 mi), straight line
• Poitiers-Biard Airport (PIS): 95 km (59 mi), straight line

Nearby

• Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire: 2.9 km (1.8 mi)
• Saint-Pierre-des-Corps: 3.5 km (2.2 mi)
• Saint-Avertin: 4.4 km (2.7 mi)
• Joue-les-Tours: 5.9 km (3.6 mi)
• Loches: 37 km (23 mi)

Things to see

• Carré d'artistes (gallery)
• François Rabelais (artwork)
• Fritz l'éléphant (artwork)
• Le Monstre (artwork)
• Le Rhinocéros (artwork)
• Musée de la Typographie (museum)