After this he kept silence, retiring to the island of Saint-Cosme near Tours to live in ascetic solitude.

This tomb, in Carrara marble, made by Girolamo da Fiesole, in the Italian style, and whose recumbent statues are reminiscent of 15th-century French medieval tradition ( school of Michel Colombe ), was kept since 1506 in Saint-Martin de Tours before being moved in 1834 to Saint-Gatien.

They range from the one-day road race, criterium, and time trial to multi-stage events like the Tour de France and its sister events which make up cycling's Grand Tours.

Touraine, the region around Tours, is known for its wines, the alleged perfection ( as perceived by some speakers ) of its local spoken French, and the Battle of Tours in 732.

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.

The importance of the city as a centre of communications contributed to its revival and, as the 20th century progressed, Tours became a dynamic conurbation, economically oriented towards the service sector.

From 10 – 13 June 1940, Tours was the temporary seat of the French government before its move to Bordeaux.

Tours is famous for its original medieval district, called le Vieux Tours.

Tours is famous for its many bridges crossing the river Loire.

Today, with its extensive rail ( including TGV ) and autoroute links to the rest of the country, Tours is a jumping-off point for tourist visits to the Loire Valley and the royal chateaux.

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

He was succeeded first by his son Fulk II the Good ( 941 or 942 – c. 960 ), and then by the son of the latter, Geoffrey I Grisegonelle ( Greytunic ) ( c. 960 – 21 July 987 ), who inaugurated a policy of expansion, having as its objects the extension of the boundaries of the ancient countship and the reconquest of those parts of it which had been annexed by the neighbouring states ; for, though western Anjou had been recovered from the dukes of Brittany since the beginning of the 10th century, in the east all the district of Saumur had already by that time fallen into the hands of the counts of Blois and Tours.

Returning to Tours, he became a canon of the cathedral and in about 1040 became head of its school, improving its efficiency and attracting students from far and near.

Another great mid era historian, Thomas Arnold, ranked the victory of Charles Martel even higher than the victory of Arminius in its impact on all of modern history: " Charles Martel's victory at Tours was among those signal deliverances which have affected for centuries the happiness of mankind.

Khalid Yahya Blankinship argued that the military defeat at Tours was one of the failures that contributed to the decline of the Umayyad caliphate: " Stretching from Morocco to China, the Umayyad caliphate based its expansion and success on the doctrine of jihad — armed struggle to claim the whole earth for God's rule, a struggle that had brought much material success for a century but suddenly ground to a halt followed by the collapse of the ruling Umayyad dynasty in 750 AD.

And the spread of Islam was stopped along the road between the towns of Tours and Poitiers, France, with just its head in Europe.

In 2002 Tours lost all connection with its historic province, all its previous suffragans depending henceforth on an expanded province of Rennes ( corresponding to the Brittany and Pays de la Loire administrative regions ).

Tours since 2002 has become the ecclesiastical metropolis of the Centre administrative region, i. e. including the dioceses of Bourges, which has lost its metropolitical function to Clermont Ferrand, Orleans, Chartres and Blois, which depended historically on Sens ( Lugdunensis Quarta ) and more recently on Paris ( and briefly Bourges ).

Old historical literature sometimes claims the Basques took control of the whole of Novempopulania in the Early Middle Ages, founding its claims on the testimony of Gregory of Tours, on the etymological link between the words " Basque " and " Gascon " – both derived from " Vascones " or " Wasconia ", the latter being used to name the whole of Novempopulania.

Tours in the United States with Mano Negra were not as successful as elsewhere and Chao seems inclined to focus his efforts in the places where his musical style finds its roots.

The valley includes historic towns such as Amboise, Angers, Blois, Chinon, Nantes, Orléans, Saumur, and Tours.

The third oldest town in Louisiana, St. Martinville has many buildings and homes with beautiful architecture, such as the historic St. Martin de Tours Catholic Church and La Maison Duchamp on Main Street.

Downtown Salisbury Ghost Walks and Tours provide a blend of evening enlightenment and education as participants tour the historic city on foot.

An other major destination are the Châteaux of the Loire Valley, this World Heritage Site is noteworthy for the quality of its architectural heritage, in its historic towns such as Amboise, Angers, Blois, Chinon, Nantes, Orléans, Saumur, and Tours, but in particular for its castles ( châteaux ), such as the Châteaux d ' Amboise, de Chambord, d ' Ussé, de Villandry and Chenonceau, which illustrate to an exceptional degree the ideals of the French Renaissance.

The Winter Ghent Bar Tour, self-dubbed as America's most charitable pub crawl, is hosted by Ghent Bar Tours in the historic Ghent neighborhood of midtown Norfolk, Virginia.

The Châteaux of the Loire Valley are part of the architectural heritage of the historic towns of Amboise, Angers, Blois, Chinon, Nantes, Orléans, Saumur, and Tours along the Loire River in France.

The historic center with the church of Martin of Tours | Saint Martin on the Motte-and-bailey.

Tours of the nearby historic farms of Knivsflå and Skageflå are available from Geiranger.

Tours of this historic 1829 facility, now abandoned, are offered.

The historic buildings are maintained by Maligne Lake Tours, a company that dates back to Brewster's and Philips ' early entrepreneurial endeavours.

* Tours of historic South Pittsburg

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

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.

They chased him from Le Mans to Saumur, losing Tours in the process, before forcing him to acknowledge Richard as his heir.

The city of Tours has a population of 140, 000 and is called " Le Jardin de la France " (" The Garden of France ").

* Le Curé de Tours ( 1832 )

Sixteen other parades take place at cities throughout France in: Angers, Biarritz, Bayonne, Bordeaux, Caen, Le Mans, Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Montpellier, Nancy, Nantes, Paris, Rennes, Rouen, Strassbourg, Toulouse and Tours.

* Gare Montparnasse – trains to Brittany, TGV to Rennes, Tours, Bordeaux, Le Mans ; rebuilt as a modern TGV station ;

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.

In exchange, SNCF allows passengers on these flights to book rail service between Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport in Roissy ( near Paris ) and Aix-en-Provence, Angers, Avignon, Bordeaux, Le Mans, Lille, Lyon Part-Dieu, Marseille, Montpellier, Nantes, Nîmes, Poiters, Rennes, Tours, and Valence with their airline.

Though of ancient origin, Blois is first distinctly mentioned by Gregory of Tours in the 6th century, and the city gained some notability in the 9th century, when it became the seat of a powerful countship with « Blesum castrum » (« Le château de Blois »).

Some cities that had been particularly faithful to the Crown were awarded an heraldic augmentation of two or three fleurs-de-lis on the chief of their coat of arms ; such cities include Paris, Lyon, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Reims, Le Havre, Angers, Le Mans, Aix-en-Provence, Tours, Limoges, Amiens, Orléans, Rouen, Argenteuil, Poitiers, Chartres and Laon among others.

Oliver Goldsmith's novel The Vicar of Wakefield ( 1766 ) and the Barsetshire novels of Anthony Trollope, and in France Honoré de Balzac's The Curate of Tours ( Le Curé de Tours ) ( 1832 ) all evoke the impoverished world of the 18th-and 19th-century vicar.

Louise de La Vallière was born in Tours, the daughter of an officer, Laurent de La Baume Le Blanc ( who took the name of La Vallière from a small estate near Amboise ) and Françoise Le Provost.

Sarthe ( Le Mans ), Tours, and Anjou are notable sources of rillettes.

After resting for a week in June 1846 at the Château de Saché in Tours, Balzac returned to Paris and began working on a short story called " Le Parasite ", which he eventually developed into the novel Le Cousin Pons.

Some scholars have pointed out that Gallus writing style resembles that of Hildebert of Lavardin ( aka Hildebert of Tours ) and have thought that Gallus had been educated at Le Mans or, according to Zathey, at Chartres or Bec in Normandy.

Even Henry's birthplace, Le Mans, was captured and Tours also soon fell.

The railway linking Caen, Le Mans and Tours ensures a regular traffic for goods and passengers at the Saint-Paterne-Racan station located SE.

He was probably a pupil of Berengar of Tours, and became master ( scholasticus ) of the school at Le Mans ; in 1091 he was made archdeacon and in 1096 bishop of Le Mans.