Tours
Tours is a city on the Loire River in the centre of France. It has about 143,000 inhabitants. It is the prefecture (administrative headquarters) of the department of Indre-et-Loire and is one of the 22 French metropolis.
Notable natives and residents
[change | change source]- Honoré de Balzac 1799-1850, novelist
- René Descartes 1596-1650, scientist, mathematician and philosopher
Sister cities
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Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany, since 1962
Segovia, Spain, since 1972
Parma, Italy, since 1976
Luoyang, People's Republic of China, since 1982
Springfield, USA, since 1984
Trois-Rivières, Canada, since 1987
Takamatsu, Japan, since 1988
Braşov, Romania, since 1990- Minneapolis, USA, since 1991
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