According to Gregory of Tours ' account, Alaric was intimidated by Clovis into surrendering Syagrius to Clovis ; Gregory then adds that " the Goths are a timorous race.

Tours are available by appointment, Monday through Saturday.

Examples of such people are Saint Hilarion and Saint Ephrem the Syrian in the East, and Saint Martin of Tours and Saint Hilary of Poitiers in the West.

Tram systems are planned or under construction in Dijon, Le Havre, Tours, Besançon and Fort-de-France.

* 813: Third Council of Tours: Priests are ordered to preach in the native language of the population.

Individual National-level events, called " National Tours ," are held throughout the racing season.

The buildings of Tours are white with blue slate ( called Ardoise ) roofs ; this style is common in the north of France, while most buildings in the south of France have terracotta roofs.

* Council of Tours: Albigensians are named and condemned as heretics.

* Third Council of Tours: Priests are ordered to preach in the vernacular ( either Vulgar Latin or German ).

These chapels are known as the " Chapels of the Tongues ", and they are devoted to St. Ansgar, patron of Denmark, who is venerated as an apostle to the Scandinavian countries ; St. Boniface, apostle of the Germans ; St. Columba, patron of Ireland and Scotland ; St. Savior ( Holy Savior ), devoted to immigrants from the east, especially Africa and Asia ; St. Martin of Tours, patron of the French ; St. Ambrose, patron of Italy ; and St. James, patron of Spain.

Tours are available for the small museum, and the well-preserved ruins of a crossroads civilisation: in addition to the cultures mentioned above, Motian artifacts display Egyptian, Corinthian, Attic, Roman, Punic and Hellenic influences.

Probably he and his own men did not realize the seriousness of the battle they had fought, as Matthew Bennett and his co-authors, in Fighting Techniques of the Medieval World ( 2005 ) says: " few battles are remembered 1, 000 years after they are fought [...] but the Battle of Tours is an exception [...] Charles Martel turned back a Muslim raid that had it been allowed to continue, might have conquered Gaul.

Both the original props of R2-D2 and C-3PO used in filming are used as audio-animatronics in the queue area of Disneyland's Star Tours ride.

The only significant land mass antipodal to metropolitan France is the Chatham Islands of New Zealand, corresponding to an area north of Montpellier including much of the Cévennes National Park, though the antipodes of the uninhabited Bounty Islands are between Tours, Orléans, and Le Mans, and those of the likewise uninhabited Antipodes Islands are in Normandy, near Saint-Saëns outside of Rouen.

The main pilgrimage sites in the diocese besides the grottos of Marmoutier, are: Notre-Dame-la-Riche, a sanctuary erected on the site of a church dating from the third century, and where the founder St. Gatianus is venerated ; Notre-Dame-de-Loches ; St. Christopher and St. Giles at St-Christophe, a pilgrimage dating from the ninth century ; the pilgrimage to the Oratory of the Holy Face in Tours, managed by Priests of the Holy Face canonically erected on 8 December, 1876.

Tours of the most famous graves are available, but due to vandalism and souvenir hunters visitors are no longer allowed to explore unaccompanied, unless they have a personal connection with the cemetery and thus hold a pass.

Tours of the famous Bundaberg Rum distillery and attractions at the Botanic Gardens are also popular with tourists.

Tours are available most days, and on Sundays there used to be an extended tour, lasting approximately one and a half hours, although this no longer takes place.

Tours are normally on the hour.

Tours are available upon request.

Tours are available.

Bus tours were available from Perth in 1933 with the Hill's Bus Tours offering passengers a tour around the park on Sundays in September.

Tours, recreational accessories and accommodations are readily available.

Tours of Whitman's restored 1920s house are available during museum hours.

Tours of this vessel are available from trained guides in the spring-fall from 10am to 5pm.

Tours are available of locations that resemble the places described in Meyer's books, although the movies were not actually filmed in Forks.

Tours of the Capo Sant ' Andrea grottos are also available.

Tours are available to view collections about the village and surrounding areas.

Tours are available every 30 minutes and free samples are provided.

Tours of the power generation plant and other dam facilities are available for a fee.

Tours of the research station are available to the public.

Tours are given mainly to grade school children but are available to the public ( minimum 15 people ) if you contact the school and ask when Wildlife Sanctuary tours are available ( the number is 1-909-594-5611, extension # 4794 ).

Tours are also available, and the fee varies between about $ 40 and $ 100 per person depending on the services provided and route.

Tours of the museum and church are available for a small fee ( being a military facility, the grounds are under military guard and tourists are escorted ).

Tours of Dinorwig power station are available from a purpose built visitor centre.

Tours across the flats and nature reserve are available from the main information centre and are undertaken by local rangers.

Tours of the building are available to the general public.

Tours, lectures and other adult and family programs are regularly available.

The city was plundered by the troops of Abd er Rahman in 732, after he had defeated Duke Eudes in the Battle of the River Garonne near Bordeaux and before the former was killed during the Battle of Tours on 10 October.

According to Gregory of Tours it was bishop Monulph who, around 570, built the first stone church on the grave of Servatius, the present-day Basilica of Saint Servatius.

The Mackinac Bridge carries Interstate 75 and the Lakes Michigan and Huron components of the Great Lakes Circle Tours across the straits and connects the city of St. Ignace on the north end with the village of Mackinaw City on the south.

Royal pressure was also brought to bear on Hildebert of Lavardin, whom Honorius had transferred from the see of Le Mans to become the Archbishop of Tours in 1125.

In 1126, Louis insisted on filling episcopal vacancies in the See of Tours with his own candidates over Hildebert ’ s objections.

Leaving aside the tales regarding miracles, in the Vita Sancti Niniani Ailred includes the following incidental information regarding Saint Ninian: that his father was a Christian king ; that he was consecrated a bishop in Rome and that he met Saint Martin in Tours ; that Saint Martin sent masons with him on his homeward journey, at his request ; that these masons built a church of stone, situated on the shore, and on learning of Saint Martin's death, Ninian dedicated the church to him ; that a certain rich and powerful " King Tuduvallus " was converted by him ; that he died after having converted the Picts and returned home, being buried in a stone sarcophagus near the altar of his church ; and that he had once travelled with a holy person named " Plebia ".

The new lineup of the band has performed a number of tours in the United States, including performances on the 2006 and 2008 Warped Tours.

This incident and the importance of Martin in the medieval Christian West made Tours, and its position on the route of pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, a major centre during the Middle Ages.

In the 6th century Gregory of Tours, author of the Ten Books of History, made his mark on the town by restoring the cathedral destroyed by a fire in 561.

Tours is on one of the main lines of the TGV.

The Oratory of the Holy Face on Rue St. Etienne in Tours receives many pilgrims every year.

* Tours on French version of Wikipedia

* Tours and its agglomeration on video ( from www. toursmetropole. fr )

* April 29 – The first edition of the Vuelta a España is raced and goes on to become one of the 3 Grand Tours of road bicycle racing.

William Daly, in order more directly to assess Clovis ' allegedly barbaric and pagan origins, was obliged to ignore the bishop Saint Gregory of Tours and base his account on the scant earlier sources, a sixth-century " vita " of Saint Genevieve and letters to or concerning Clovis from bishops and Theodoric.

Attached to the généralité ( administrative circumscription ) of Tours, Anjou on the eve of the Revolution comprised five êlections ( judicial districts ):-- Angers, Baugé, Saumur, Château-Gontier, Montreuil-Bellay and part of the êlections of La Flèche and Richelieu.

Berengar of Tours died on the island of St. Cosme, near that city, in 1088.

At Tours, Gambetta received word from Paris on 30 January that the Government had surrendered.

A delegation of Parisian diplomats arrived in Tours by train on 5 February to negotiate with Gambetta, and the following day Gambetta stepped down and surrendered control of the provincial armies to the Government of National Defence, which promptly ordered a ceasefire across France.

Gregory of Tours mentions in his Liber historiae Francorum (" Book of Frankish History ") that the Alan king Respendial saved the day for the Vandals in an armed encounter with the Franks at the crossing of the Rhine on December 31, 406 ).

From all accounts, the invading forces were caught entirely off guard to find a large force, well disposed and prepared for battle, with high ground, directly opposing their attack on Tours.

Charles gambled everything that ‘ Abd-al-Raḥmân would in the end feel compelled to give battle, and to go on and loot Tours.