Places to see in ( Tours - France )
Places to see in ( Tours - France )
Tours is a university town between France's Cher and Loire rivers. Once a Gallic-Roman settlement, today it's a university town and a traditional gateway for exploring the chateaux of the Loire Valley region. Major landmarks include the cathedral, Saint-Gatien, whose flamboyant Gothic facade is flanked by towers with 12th-century bases and Renaissance tops.
Tours (with a silent s) is an important French city (population 140,000, 360,000 with the suburbs) located on the river Loire in the Centre-Val de Loire region. Touraine, the region around Tours, is renowned for its wines and for the perfection of its local spoken French. For tourists, the city is a good base for exploring the many castles and charming towns in the Loire Valley. Although much of the city is modern, Tours boasts half-timbered buildings in Place Plumereau, a 12th century cathedral, and Roman ruins scattered throughout the city, including in the Jardin de St Pierre le Puellier.
Beneath the plane trees lining Boulevard Béranger, the twice-weekly flower market in Tours provides a splash of color and a heady whiff of fragrance to the thoroughfare, one of several that can justly be described as Haussmannesque. The imposing Belle Epoque City Hall, built by noted native-son architect Victor Laloux bears more than a passing resemblance to the Hôtel de Ville in the nation’s capital. Echoes of the Paris Opéra are found in the opulent Grand Théâtre de Tours, since architect Charles Garnier was involved in its construction. Towering Saint Gatien cathedral, in spite of its ornate facade and owl-eyed twin towers topped with Renaissance belfries, is, on the interior, a Gothic marvel fit for Quasimodo. And in the summer—inspired by the success of Paris Plage—Tours puts on its own beach-party festival on the banks of the Loire, with evening concerts, open-air movies and guinguettes for dancing.
Alot to see in ( Tours - France ) such as :
Tours Cathedral
Basilica of Saint Martin, Tours
Château de Tours
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours
Jardin botanique de Tours
Hôtel Goüin
Musée du Compagnonnage de Tours
Museum of Natural History of Tours
Vieux Tours
Centre de Création Contemporaine Olivier Debré
Cloître de la Psalette
Hôtel de ville de Tours
Prébendes d'Oé Garden
City Hall - Tours
Halles de Tours
Tour Charlemagne
Marmoutier Abbey, Tours
Château de Candé
Park Perraudière
Parc de Sainte-Radegonde
Basilique Saint-Julien
Musée De La Typographie
Château de Plessis-lez-Tours
Tour de l'Horloge
Park Bretonnières
Guinguette de Pont Wilson
Kizou Aventures
Priory of St. Cosmas
Le Monstre - Xavier Veilhan
Le Monstre - Xavier Veilhan
Lulu Parc
Pôle Karting Service
Le Cèdre du Liban
Les Halles Luynes
( Tours - France ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting Tours . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Tours - France
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Tours, France Overview
Overview video of the main sites and squares of Tours, France.
Adventures Ashore: Montpellier and Flaugergues Castle
We visit Montpellier, France and nearby Château Flaugergues
Musique & Nature - France, Val de Loire, faune, flore, châteaux
La première partie s'attarde plutôt sur Chambord, son parc, sa faune, et sur les châteaux d'Ussé, d'Amboise, de Chaumont sur Loire et de Chenonceau. La seconde partie met l'accent sur le fleuve Loire sauvage et libre, sa faune et sa flore. Séquence de fin avec Chambord en clair obscur, sangliers et cerfs en sous-bois.
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Chambord and Val de Loire , fauna, flora, forests, castles
The first part lingers rather over Chambord, its castle, its park, fauna and flora in its forest, and over the castles of Ussé, Amboise, Chaumont sur Loire and Chenonceau. The second part emphasizes the Loire river, the wild and free Loire, its fauna and its flora. Sequence of the end with Chambord in twilight, its forest, with wild boars and deers in undergrowth.
I wanted to make of this video a hymn for the nature and for the beauty, closely linked.
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C'est en regardant la très belle vidéo de Michel G. que l'idée m'est venue de faire à mon tour un montage vidéo sur le val de Loire.
Voici sa vidéo:
Châteaux-de-la-Loire_La vallée des rois
Sans oublier les superbes vidéos de Wittydud's channel, qui m'ont véritablement inspiré sur une certaine mise en rythme, mise en musique, de la nature.
J'ai passé presque toutes mes vacance d'enfant dans le val de Loire, à Vienne-en-val exactement, entre Orléans et Sully-sur-Loire. sans conteste une des plus belles régions de France, avec ce fleuve changeant et parfois très large lors des crues annuelles. Alors les souvenirs sont remontés. J'ai un peu plus privilégié la nature, laissant tout de même une jolie place aux chateaux. Par ordre de première apparition dans cette vidéo, il y a les châteaux de Chambord, 00:17 , d' Ussé, 04:10 , d'Amboise, 06:46, de Chaumont sur Loire, 08:09, et de Chenonceau, 08:54 . A noter que ce dernier n'est pas construit sur la Loire, mais a les pieds dans l'eau du Cher, affluent, qui longe la Loire à 10 kilomètres au sud de celle-ci à cet endroit, et qui la longe ensuite d'est en ouest, en parallèle, juqu'à la rejoinde environ 45 kilomètres plus loin, un peu après Tours, entre le château de Langeais et le château de Luynes, tout près du château de Villandry, et à 9 kilomètres au nord du château d'Azay-le-rideau. Nous avons donc ici quatre châteaux dans un rayon de 5 à 9 kilomètres. Le château de Chambord, quant à lui, est à 5 kilomètres au sud de la Loire, à environ 45 kilomètres en amont au nord-est de Chenonceau. A 14 kilomètres à l'ouest de Chambord, Blois et son château. A 11 kilomètres au nord-ouest de Chenonceau, Amboise et son château. Le château de Chaumont-sur-Loire est à 18 kilomètres au nord-est de Chenonceau. Finalement, seul Chenonceau, des châteaux cités, n'est pas sur la Loire.
Je voudrais en profiter pour rendre hommage à une dame remarquable, Christine Jean, qui a défendu le fleuve Loire, et sa vallée, pendant des années. Explication :
Vu du Ciel - S01E02 - 7/16 - La passionaria de la Loire - France
English:
Christine Jean: 1992 Goldman Prize winner, France
J'ai voulu faire de cette vidéo un hymne à la nature et à la beauté, étroitement liées.
Frédéric BOURMAUT
Portrait of Marie Leszczynska, Queen of France
Marie Leszczyńska was a queen consort of France. She was a daughter of King Stanisław Leszczyński of Poland (later Duke of Lorraine) and Catherine Opalińska. She married King Louis XV of France and was the grandmother of Louis XVI, Louis XVIII, and Charles X. In France, she was referred to as Marie Leczinska. She was the longest-serving queen consort of France.
Queen Marie never managed to acquire political influence. She made an attempt to involve herself in politics at the very beginning of their marriage when she, in 1726, asked Louis to appoint the unpopular Prince of Condé as a Cabinet minister, despite her father's warnings. King Louis took her attempt to become involve in politics very badly, and after 1726 she was completely separated from affairs of state and any political influence on Louis. In 1733, she declared her support to her father in his demand on the Polish throne. Queen Marie, as well as her mother, maintained a political correspondence with Margareta Gyllenstierna, the spouse of Arvid Horn, with whom she had made the acquaintance during her stay in Sweden.
Queen Marie represented the king many times in ceremonial rituals at the court of Versailles during his many absences.
Louis provided her with a large apartment in the palace where she could live more informally with her circle of friends. Among her most noted guests as the de Luynes couple. She was given an allowance of 96,000 livres for pleasure, charity and gambling, which was not considered to be very large. She enjoyed a game called cavagnole, and was often in debt because of the reluctance of her husband and father to pay her losses.
Marie was a devout Roman Catholic. Her major contribution to life at Versailles was the weekly event of Polish choral concerts. She was also a great lover of music and painting and the protector of many artists. She met the castrato Farinelli in 1737, and, in 1764, the young Mozart, whom she found very charming. During his visit to Versailles, she acted as an interpreter for her husband and family who did not understand German. She also started a correspondence with Voltaire, for whom she secured a pension.
During an era when France was a very powerful nation, often in conflict with Austria, the Austrian ambassador to France, Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau (who later helped secure the marriage of the Dauphin and Marie Antoinette), was said to have been romantically involved with the queen, but this seems highly unlikely and was disregarded as court gossip. Marie was known for her good manners, grace, and piety.
Her daughter-in-law, the dauphine, died at the age of 20 after giving birth to a daughter Marie Thérèse. The queen, very fond and loving of her only son, encouraged him to take as his second wife the Duchess Marie-Josèphe of Saxony, daughter of her father's rival, Frederick Augustus Wettin of Saxony, King August III of Poland. Initially, this connection caused some friction between the queen and her new daughter-in-law. However, the friction was soon overcome, reportedly because the young German princess was an admirer of the Queen's father. In honour of him, several of the queen's grandsons received the name Stanislas at their christening.
Marie Leszczynsaka was truly a people's queen. Her death on 24 June 1768 at the age of 65 was a huge blow to the French monarchy. She was buried at the Basilica of St Denis and her heart deposed at the Church of Notre-Dame-de-Bonsecours in Nancy (Lorraine).
Source: Wikipedia
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Printemps spring france bord de loire river Tours
France (French: [fʁɑ̃s]), officially the French Republic (French: République française [ʁepyblik fʁɑ̃sɛz]), is a sovereign state comprising territory in western Europe and several overseas regions and territories.[XVI] The European part of France, called metropolitan France, extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean. France spans 643,801 square kilometres (248,573 sq mi)[1] and has a total population of 66.6 million.[VI][8] It is a unitary semi-presidential republic with the capital in Paris, the country's largest city and main cultural and commercial centre. The Constitution of France establishes the state as secular and democratic, with its sovereignty derived from the people.
During the Iron Age, what is now Metropolitan France was inhabited by the Gauls, a Celtic people. The Gauls were conquered in 51 BC by the Roman Empire, which held Gaul until 486. The Gallo-Romans faced raids and migration from the Germanic Franks, who dominated the region for hundreds of years, eventually creating the medieval Kingdom of France. France emerged as a major European power in the Late Middle Ages, with its victory in the Hundred Years' War (1337 to 1453) strengthening French state-building and paving the way for a future centralized absolute monarchy. During the Renaissance, France experienced a vast cultural development and established the beginning of a global colonial empire. The 16th century was dominated by religious civil wars between Catholics and Protestants (Huguenots).
France became Europe's dominant cultural, political, and military power under Louis XIV.[9] French philosophers played a key role in the Age of Enlightenment during the 18th century. In the late 18th century, the absolute monarchy was overthrown in the French Revolution. Among its legacies was the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, one of the earliest documents on human rights, which expresses the nation's ideals to this day. France became one of modern history's earliest republics until Napoleon took power and launched the First French Empire in 1804. Fighting against a complex set of coalitions during the Napoleonic Wars, he dominated European affairs for over a decade and had a long-lasting impact on Western culture. Following the collapse of the Empire, France endured a tumultuous succession of governments: the monarchy was restored, it was replaced in 1830 by a constitutional monarchy, then briefly by a Second Republic, and then by a Second Empire, until a more lasting French Third Republic was established in 1870. The French republic had tumultuous relationships with the Catholic Church from the dechristianization of France during the French Revolution to the 1905 law establishing laïcité. Laïcité is a strict but consensual form of secularism, which is nowadays an important federative principle in the modern French society.
France reached its territorial height during the 19th and early 20th centuries, when it ultimately possessed the second-largest colonial empire in the world.[10] In World War I, France was one of the main winners as part of the Triple Entente alliance fighting against the Central Powers. France was also one of the Allied Powers in World War II, but came under occupation by the Axis Powers in 1940. Following liberation in 1944, a Fourth Republic was established and later dissolved in the course of the Algerian War. The Fifth Republic, led by Charles de Gaulle, was formed in 1958 and remains to this day. Following World War II, most of the French colonial empire became decolonized.
Throughout its long history, France has been a leading global center of culture, making significant contributions to art, science, and philosophy. It hosts Europe's third-largest number of cultural UNESCO World Heritage Sites (after Italy and Spain) and receives around 83 million foreign tourists annually, the most of any country in the world.[11] France remains a great power with significant cultural, economic, military, and political influence.[12] It is a developed country with the world's sixth-largest economy by nominal GDP[13] and ninth-largest by purchasing power parity.[14] According to Credit Suisse, France is the fourth wealthiest nation in the world in terms of aggregate household wealth.[15] It also possesses the world's largest exclusive economic zone (EEZ), covering 11,691,000 square kilometres (4,514,000 sq mi).[16]
Wine Tasting in the Vines
A conversation between a french winegrower and some american tourists coming from Paris to spend a day in the french vineyards of Burgundy and Loire-Valley with Paris Wine Day Tours (wine-day-tours.com )
Ecoutez les Trompes de Chasse Traditionnelle
Ecoutez les Trompes de Chasse traditionelle sur
Les plus belles sonneries traditionnelles
Imaginez-vous au coeur des meilleures formations hexagonales pour une série de concerts grandeur nature...
Voici pour vous un véritable festival de trompes de chasse avec des sonorités si caractéristiques, une musique envoûtante, des images hautes en couleur...
Vous pénétrerez dans tout un univers d'impressions, de sensations, d'émotions et vous serez émerveillé par cet éclat que la trompe a conquis dans les bois depuis plus de cinq générations. De tradition typiquement française, ce bel instrument appartient à notre culture cynégétique et il attire de plus en plus d'amateurs et de virtuoses. Etroitement lié à la vénerie, le cor de chasse permet la communication entre veneurs. Il aide aussi les chiens qui aiment cette musique et reconnaissent celle de l'homme qui les nourrit.
Grâce à cette vidéo, vous assisterez à des fanfares d'animaux de circonstances, de fantaisies d'une qualité exceptionnelle.
C'est ainsi que vous pourrez découvrir Les Trompes du Musée de la Chasse de Giens dans une des salles du château abritant le célèbre musée international de la chasse, mais aussi la formation des Trompes de Chasse de Bonne filmée au cloître de la chartreuse Melan à Taninges en Haute-Savoie ainsi que le Rallye Trompes de Bergerac, Les Echos du Bas-Maine, le Rallye Trompes du Cotentin (Champion international 1996 des sociétés de trompes), Les Echos du Lys et le Cercle Saint-Hubert Bourbon Vendôme enregistrés dans le cadre du 27ème concours international de Société de Trompes à Sully sur Loire.
Oui vraiment ce document est un ravissement pour les oreilles comme pour les yeux grâce aux sonneurs en grande tenue dans des sites majestueux. Un coffret de 2 DVD à offrir ou à vous offrir absolument !