Our selection of guided tours

Duration : 1h30 - Price : 10€
The Tours Loire Valley Tourist Office and the city of Tours offer a thematic tour of the Old Town of Tours, led by a guide.

A guided tour of the emblematic Vieux Tours district around Place Plumereau, led by an expert guide.

 Medieval half-timbered and stone houses stand side by side with exceptional townhouses. These mansions bear witness to the prosperity of this part of town, which grew up around a huge collegiate church dedicated to Saint Martin. Once home to the saint's body, it was the center of one of the oldest pilgrimages in Christendom.

This tour has been awarded the Ville d'Art et d'Histoire label.

Duration : 1h30 - Price : from 10 €

Tours Loire Valley Tourist Office and the city of Tours offer a themed tour of the former Abbey of Marmoutier. Hermitage of Saint Martin. 

A guided tour of the landscape and monumental dimensions of Marmoutier Abbey, and a discovery of its archaeological remains.

 Surrounded by a cliff, in a meander of the Loire, the Marmoutier site stands out for its tranquility and picturesque character. It was on this site, occupied since antiquity, that Saint Martin founded a small hermitage in the 4th century, which rapidly developed into a prestigious abbey of considerable influence.
Restored and maintained until the French Revolution, the abbey was partly demolished in the 19th century. Since 1981, the City of Tours has been the owner of the hillside and adjoining land where most of the preserved ancient buildings are located. Every summer, the site hosts a programmed archaeological dig, which you can discover on this tour.

This tour has been awarded the Ville d'Art et d'Histoire label.

Duration: 2h - Price: from 12 €

Led by a guide, the Tours Loire Valley Tourist Office and the city of Tours are offering a themed tour by night.

Unveiled in November 2018, the lighting plan highlights and emphasises the monuments and urban spaces. Along the way and at nightfall, the soft and subtle lighting reveals the beauty of Tours' architecture. This tour takes you to the city's emblematic sites to learn about the history and specific features of Tours' heritage.

Duration: 1h30 - Price: from €10
Led by a guide, the Tours Val de Loire Tourist Office and the City of Tours are offering a ‘Street Art’ tour, route 3. Winners of the participatory budget launched in 2022 by the City of Tours, the Blumonday collective has painted various buildings in the Sanitas district. As landmarks for local residents, these buildings have become works of art. Discover this open-air art trail.

Duration : 1h30 - Price : 10 €
Under the guidance of a guide, the Tours Loire Valley Tourist Office and the city of Tours offer you a "Street Art" tour.

A guided walking tour that surprises with the diversity of contemporary expression that Tours has inspired.

Various artists have worked in the city, from private commissions such as the Gambetta parking lot, to free works, some visible to all, others more discreet. Led by a tour guide, this visit will enable you to discover the different forms of expression that street art covers in Tours: painting, collage, ceramics and more.
This tour has been awarded the Ville d'Art et d'Histoire label.

Duration : 1h30 - Price : 10 €
Under the guidance of an expert guide, the Tours Loire Valley Tourist Office and the city of Tours offer you an Art-Deco tour.

This general tour illustrates the variety of Touraine's Art Deco architectural production: individual homes, collective housing, shops, public buildings...

The Art Deco style developed in the first half of the 20th century. It reflects a trend towards simplified forms, with geometrically stylized decorations.  
Led by a tour guide, the Tours Tourist Office and the city of Tours invite you to take a tour of the city's Art Deco buildings.

This tour has been awarded the Ville d'Art et d'Histoire label.ette tour has been awarded the Ville d'Art et d'Histoire label.

Duration : 1h30 - Price : from 10 €

Under the guidance of a guide, the Tourist Office and the city of Tours offer you a visit in the footsteps of Balzac

Born in Tours on 20 May 1799, Honoré de Balzac retained a real affection for his native city throughout his life. In the preface to his "Contes drolatiques", he states that he had "no desire to be anything other than a good Touraineur" and his precise descriptions have given rise to his reputation as a fine connoisseur of the monuments, streets and history of Tours. This tour puts the architecture of the city into perspective in Balzac's work.