In a strategic place in the route that unites Paris with Bordeaux, in the heart of the valley of the Loira, is the city of Tours, notable by its economic and cultural vigor but also by its past, of which they are left some samples artistic.
The city intimately is bound to history of the French Christianity and was key point in one of the routes santiagueñas that crossed the Galia, indeed the route that arrived from Paris and that has the name of Tours: the Turonense Route.
It has Tours about 300,000 inhabitants, and it is raised in an altitude between the rivers Loira and Cher. It is the suitable place to cross the river basin of the Loira and to visit the important castles, such as those of Blois, Chambord and Chenonceau.
It is the capital of the Touraine, and has an ample and rationalist part of centuries XIX and XX and one old zone where interest buildings last, among them the rest of the great temple of San Martin, center of medieval peregrination.
Tours is the center of a part of France that has deserved the attention of kings, noble, poets and artists who have left an interesting legacy cultural. For that reason Tours intimately is bound to history and great personages, like San Gatien, evangelizador of the Galias; San Martin; Gregorio de Tours; Alcuino, and - modernly Anatole France and Henri Bergson.