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Tours (/ t ʊər / TOOR, French: ⓘ) is the largest city in the region of Centre-Val de Loire, France. It is the prefecture of the department of Indre-et-Loire . The commune of Tours had 136,463 inhabitants as of 2018 while the population of the whole metropolitan area was 516,973.
Touraine (US: / t u ˈ r eɪ n, t u ˈ r ɛ n /; [1] [2] [3] French: ⓘ) is one of the traditional provinces of France. Its capital was Tours. During the political reorganization of French territory in 1790, Touraine was divided between the departments of Indre-et-Loire, Loir-et-Cher, Indre and Vienne.
A quarter is a part of an urban settlement. [ 1 ] A quarter can be administratively defined and its borders officially designated, and it may have its own administrative structure (subordinate to that of the city, town or other urban area).
Settlement in Chinon dates from prehistoric times, [4] with a pronounced importance for both French and English history in the Middle Ages. At this period rivers were the main trade routes, [5] and the Vienne joins both the fertile regions of the Poitou and the city of Limoges, and is a tributary of the Loire, which acted as a traffic ...
Châteauroux (/ ˌ ʃ æ t oʊ ˈ r uː / SHAT-oh-ROO; French pronunciation: ⓘ; Occitan: Chasteurós) is the capital city of the French department of Indre, [3] central France and the second-largest town in the province of Berry, after Bourges. Its residents are called Castelroussins (pronounced [kastɛlʁusɛ̃]) in French.
The Tours amphitheater (also known as the Caesarodunum amphitheater) is a Roman amphitheatre located in the historic city center of Tours, France, immediately behind the well known Tours cathedral. It was built in the 1st century when the city was called Caesarodunum. It was built atop a small hill on the outskirts of the ancient urban area ...
The French Quarter is within the original "walled" city of Charleston. [2] [3] The area began being called the French Quarter in 1973 when preservation efforts began for warehouse buildings on the Lodge Alley block. The name recognizes the high concentration of French merchants in the area's history.
Fort St. Louis, 2010. Marigot is located on the west coast of the island of St. Martin. It extends from the coast to the west, along the Bay of Marigot and the hills of the interior of the island to the east.