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Château de Tours

France · 11th century

Founded
c. 1050
Heritage status
monument historique inscrit · classified historical monument
Location
Tours
Coordinates
47.3971°, 0.6936°
Links
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Château de Tours in France
Photo: Eusebius · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Description

The Château de Tours is a castle located in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France.

Built in the 11th century, the building features architecture of the Carolingian period, and was the residence of the Lords of France.

Until the 2000s, the Royal Castle of Tours was used as an aquarium where about 1,500 fish of 200 different species could be seen. It also served as Grévin museum. The castle was classified as monument historique on 20 August 1913.

Currently, the building houses contemporary exhibitions of paintings and photographs (organized by Le Jeu de Paume), including works by Joan Miró, Daniel Buren, Nadar, Robert Capa.

Text adapted from “Château de Tours” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

In the rankings

Château de Tours ranks #2,299 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #161 of the 954 mapped in France. Founded c. 1050, it is older than 89% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 458 atlas entries founded in the 11th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 2,018 times in the last 60 days, more than 74% of the atlas. 15 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Tours, 1 km away. It is one of the 87 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of the Loire Valley. It is stop 16 of 32 on the Loire Valley château route, Angers to Orléans. See how France compares in the castle statistics.

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