Guided tours

Duration: 1h30 - Price: from €7 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: from 7€  A guided tour of memory and funerary art, led by a tour guide through the vast La Salle cemetery. La Salle Cemetery: Opened in 1858 on the Saint-Symphorien hillside, La Salle Cemetery is home to a wide variety of monuments that illustrate the evolution of funerary art in contemporary times, and evokes the memory of departed Touraine personalities: Victor Laloux, Henri Varenne, Gustave Guérin, Arthur Duthoo... This tour has been awarded the Ville d'Art et d'Histoire label.

Duration: 1h30 - Price: from 7€ Immerse yourself in the work of mosaicist Sante Vallar as you explore the colorful mosaics of downtown Tours. Accompanied by a tour guide, you'll learn more about Sante Vallar and the place of mosaics in the city in the early 20th century, from the revival of mosaics to Vallar's prolific creations and today's renewed interest. This tour has been awarded the Ville d'Art et d'Histoire label.

Duration:  1h30 - Price: from €12 A guided tour of the landscape and monumental dimensions of Marmoutier Abbey and a discovery of the archaeological remains. Surrounded by a cliff, in a meander of the Loire, the site of Marmoutier stands out for its tranquillity and picturesque character. It was on this site, occupied since ancient times, 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 owned the hillside and adjoining land where most of the old buildings that have survived 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.