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

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

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.

Other landmarks historically associated with Ardmore include the Autocar Manufacturing Company, an important manufacturer of trucks and jeeps during the world wars, once located on Lancaster Pike on the site of the current Ardmore West Shopping Center, which burned down in a famous conflagration in 1956 ; the Ardmore Theater on Lancaster Pike, now the Philadelphia Sports Club ; Harrison's Department Store, on the north side of Lancaster Pike across from the theater ; Mads Record Shop, rock music mecca since the genre's inception, still going strong ; the Merion Art Center ; the Pennywise Thrift Shop of Jefferson Medical College ; Lyons Hardware Store on Rittenhouse Place ; Rittenhouse Electric, also on Rittenhouse Place ; A. Talone Cleaners at Lancaster and Greenfield ; and luxury travel company SWAIN Tours.

So in the famous ancient city Tours,

Pork rillettes from the Northwestern regions of Tours and Anjou are famous for their rich texture and bronze color achieved during the cooking process.

The district boasts many historical and cultural attractions so it is a destination for tour companies like Big Onion and NYC Chinatown Tours.

Some of the main tourist attractions within the city include: the Shania Twain Centre, Timmins Underground Gold Mine Tour, The Timmins Museum and National Exhibition Centre, Cedar Meadows Wilderness Tours, Kamiskotia Snow Resort, Porcupine Ski Runners Cross-Country Trails and Chalet, Hollinger Golf Club, Spruce Needles Golf Club, the Sandy Falls Golf Club, the McIntyre Community Building and the Timmins Snowmobile Club.

A 1946 survey by Panner Motor Tours revealed that they ranked seventh among tourist attractions in Southern California.

Ulsterbus operate " Day Tours " to other parts of Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and Scotland mainly shopping and to some tourist attractions.

Several new attractions were closed shortly after the opening of the park, such as Island Skipper Tours, due to lack of attendance.

Tours of the Vernors plant old and new were major tourist attractions.

Indiana Jones Adventure is the fourth collaboration between Disney and Lucasfilm, after the Disneyland attractions Captain EO, Star Tours, and Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular !.

Today, Audio-Animatronics are featured prominently in many popular Disney attractions, including Pirates of the Caribbean, The Haunted Mansion, The Hall of Presidents, Country Bear Jamboree, Star Tours: The Adventures Continue and Muppet * Vision 3D.

Two years later, two new attractions found homes in Tomorrowland: Star Tours and Captain EO.

Muppet * Vision 3D along with Captain EO are one of two Disney 3D attractions currently playing which actually calls their glasses " 3D Glasses " ( It's Tough to Be a Bug utilizes " Bug Eyes ", Star Tours: The Adventures Continue refers to them as " Flight Glasses ", Toy Story Midway Mania!

Further afield tourists can experience the evergreen Western Inland Route and KwaZulu's regional attractions, including The Drakensberg ( Barrier of Spears ) Battlefields Tours, Game Reserves and Zululand are within a 2-3 hour drive.

Recent destinations have included Hawaii, Orlando, San Francisco, Berkeley ( CA ), Boston, Chicago, New York City, Dallas, and Washington, D. C .. Tours include shows at Dartmouth alumni events, schools in the area, hotels, businesses, and general down time for the group to forge bonds ( amusement parks, comedy shows, tourist attractions, etc .).

However, this was not successful, for according to Gregory of Tours, Amalaric pressured her to forsake her Roman Catholic faith and convert to Arian Christianity, at one point beating her until she bled ; she sent to her brother Childebert I, king of Paris a towel stained with her own blood.

He was made Abbot of Saint Martin's at Tours in 796, where he remained until his death.

Their raids throughout the three parts of Gaul were traumatic: Gregory of Tours ( died ca 594 ) mentions their destructive force at the time of Valerian and Gallienus ( 253 – 260 ), when the Alemanni assembled under their " king ", whom he calls Chrocus, who " by the advice, it is said, of his wicked mother, and overran the whole of the Gauls, and destroyed from their foundations all the temples which had been built in ancient times.

Nor was it the loss of the royal treasury at Toulouse, which Gregory of Tours writes Clovis took into his possession.

His forces met little resistance, burning numerous towns to the ground and living off the land, until they reached the Loire River at Tours.

The King, who had been besieging Breteuil in Normandy, arranged the bulk of his army at Chartres to the north of the besieged Tours, dismissing approximately 15, 000 – 20, 000 of his lower-quality infantry to increase the speed of his forces.

Then the king came to the Haye in Touraine and his men had passed the river of Loire, some at the bridge of Orléans and some at Meung, at Saumur, at Blois, and at Tours and whereas they might: they were in number a twenty thousand men of arms beside other ; there were a twenty-six dukes and earls ( Counts ) and more than sixscore banners, and the four sons of the king, who were but young, the duke Charles of Normandy, the lord Louis, that was from thenceforth duke of Anjou, and the lord John duke of Berry, and the lord Philip, who was after duke of Burgoyne ".

Jerome's first revision of the Itala ( A. D. 383 ), known as the Roman, is still used at St Peter's in Rome, but the " Gallican ", thanks especially to St Gregory of Tours, who introduced it into Gaul in the 6th century, has ousted it everywhere else.

The Arab Chronicles, the history of that age, show that Arab awareness of the Franks as a growing military power came only after the Battle of Tours when the Caliph expressed shock at his army's catastrophic defeat.

* 1576 – Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion.

* 2002 – An Iran Air Tours Tupolev Tu-154 crashes in the mountains outside Khorramabad, Iran while descending for a landing at Khorramabad Airport, killing 119.

The advance into Western Europe was only stopped in what is now north-central France by the West Germanic Franks under Charles Martel at the Battle of Tours in 732.

The mayor of the palace, Charles Martel, defeated that raiding party at the Battle of Tours ( although the battle took place between Tours and Poitiers ) and earned respect and power within the Frankish Kingdom.

* 1955 – The Union Mundial pro Interlingua is founded at the first Interlingua congress in Tours, France.

So it was that the armies of the Frankish ruler and warlord Charles Martel, which defeated the Umayyad Arab invasion at the Battle of Tours in 732, were still largely infantry armies, the elites riding to battle but dismounting to fight, providing a hard core for the levy of the infantry warbands.

He won the Battle of Tolbiac against the Alemanni in 496, at which time, according to Gregory of Tours, Clovis adopted his wife Clotilda's Catholic ( i. e. Nicene ) Christian faith.

Under Charles Martel's leadership, the Franks defeated the Moors at the Battle of Tours in 732, limiting the expansion of Islam onto the European continent.

Peter the Deacon gives a list of some seventy books Desiderius had copied at Monte Cassino, including works of Saint Augustine, Saint Ambrose, Saint Bede, Saint Basil, Saint Jerome, Saint Gregory of Nazianzus and Cassian, the registers of Popes Felix and Leo, the histories of Josephus, Paul Warnfrid, Jordanes and Saint Gregory of Tours, the Institutes and Novels of Justinian, the works of Terence, Virgil and Seneca, Cicero's De natura deorum, and Ovid's Fasti.

On the other hand, at a synod convened by Louis at Tours in September 1510 the French bishops withdrew from papal obedience, and resolved, with Emperor Maximilian's cooperation, to seek the deposition of the pope.

* Virtual Tours of Royal Hospital Kilmainham North Range, Courtyard and Formal Gardens

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 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.