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 : 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 €
The Tours Loire Valley Tourist Office and the city of Tours offer a thematic tour of "Ancient Tours", led by a guide.

The city of Tours, founded in the 1st century, was created as a Roman capital on the territory of the Turones.
In the Middle Ages, the city evolved in a bipolar manner: to the west, the Châteauneuf district, born of the pilgrimage of Saint Martin, was under the authority of the bishop. A royal city at the end of the Middle Ages, Tours experienced tremendous prosperity. In the 18th century, the city benefited from the policy of opening up the cities of the kingdom with the creation of the new road to Spain. The arrival of the railway in the middle of the 19th century and the annexation of the commune of Saint-Etienne confirmed the development of the town towards the south. The reconstruction of the upper part of the Rue Nationale and the major urban construction projects marked the second half of the 20th century.
Please note: access to the underground of the Fine Arts Museum is subject to presentation of a health pass - thank you for your understanding.

Duration : 1h30 - Price : from 10 €
The Tours Loire Valley Tourist Office and the city of Tours are offering a guided tour of Louis XI.

At the end of the Hundred Years' War, Louis XI became king and made Tours his capital. This tireless and cunning traveller king left nothing to chance: he extended the royal domain and administered it with an iron fist. On the occasion of the sixth centenary of his birth (1423-2023), rediscover Louis XI in his "good city" of Tours.

Duration : 1h30 - Price : from 10 €
The Tourist Office and the City of Tours offer a guided tour of Saint Gatien Cathedral and its neighborhood.

Located around Saint-Gatien Cathedral, this district is one of the oldest in Tours. The site of Caesarodunum in the 1st century A.D., and a Roman capital, it became a religious center under the authority of bishops and then archbishops, while to the west, the Châteauneuf district, born of the pilgrimage of Saint Martin, stood out. This part of the city has preserved some of its earliest architectural features, revealing the urban evolution of Tours.

Reservations must be made in advance at the Tourist Office or online. No sales on site.