Canton de Tours-Ouest

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Le Canton de Tours-Ouest est un ancien canton français situé dans le département d'Indre-et-Loire et la région Centre.

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Château de Plessis-lez-Tours

The royal Château de Plessis-lèz-Tours is the remains of a late Gothic château located in the town of La Riche in the Indre-et-Loire department, in the Loire Valley of France. Around three quarters of the former royal residence were pulled down during the French Revolution in 1796. Plessis-lèz-Tours was the favorite residence of King Louis XI of France, who died there on 30 August 1483. It was also the scene of the 1589 meeting between King Henry III of France and the future King Henry IV of France which resulted in their alliance against the Catholic League. The present building is only a small part of the château originally built by Louis XI in the 15th century. The original château had three wings in the shape of a U. The room where Louis XI died can be visited. It has late 15th-century wooden linenfold panelling. The first floor has paintings and sculpture devoted to St. Francis of Paola, whom Louis XI summoned to live near him until his death. Inside the château is a display of iron cages which were suspended from the ceiling and used to hold prisoners. The cages were so small that the prisoners were unable to stand. The remaining wing, which had long been used as a dairy farm and a buckshot factory, has been listed as a monument historique since 1927 by the French Ministry of Culture.

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Jardin botanique de Tours

The Jardin botanique de Tours is a municipal botanical garden and arboretum located at 33, Boulevard Tonnellé, Tours, Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire, France. It is open daily; admission is free. The garden was established by public subscription in 1843 at the initiative of pharmacist Jean-Anthyme Margueron, and is the oldest public garden in the city. In response to the 1841 creation of the city's Hospice Général et de l’Ecole Préparatoire de Pharmacie, it began as a collection of about 2,000 medical and exotic plants arranged in greenhouses, orchard, and garden proper. It was flooded by the Loire in 1848 and again in 1856, to a depth of 2 metres, which required rebuilding the garden and replacing most of its trees. In 1863 an orangery and animal park were added, and then in 1890 new greenhouses under the direction of Louis Madelin, with the garden's first seed catalog published in 1901. The greenhouses were damaged by bombardments in World War II. The garden currently contains about 2,000 taxa, organized as follows: North - regular parterres along an avenue of magnolias, with a pool containing water lilies and lotus; renovated in 1980 to contain theme gardens and a phylogenetic garden. East - bulbs, rhizomes, and perennials, as well as a garden of plant evolution. South - an excellent arboretum in the English style, a pond, and a "garden of simples" as in medieval gardens. West - heath, bog, Mediterranean garden, and alpine garden. The garden also contains an orangery, exhibition greenhouses, and a small space for animals.

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La Riche

La Riche is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in central France. It is part of the agglomeration of Tours and is named after Notre-Dame-la-Riche Church.

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Saint-Clément Church, Tours

Saint-Clément Church was a parish church in the old town of Tours, France, not far from the Basilica of Saint Martin. It was located on what is now the northern part of place Gaston-Paillhou, with its north wall aligned with the façades along the south side of rue des Halles. It was built from 1462 to replace an earlier chapel promoted to a parish church. The French Revolutionaries stopped religious services there and in 1792 it was sold to the city as a grain market. It was demolished in 1883 as it had fallen into such a poor state that restoring it would be too expensive.

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Notre-Dame-la-Riche Church

Notre-Dame-de-la-Riche Church is a Roman Catholic church building on Rue Georges-Courteline in the old town district of Tours. The town of La Riche is named after it.

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Composition

Lors de sa disparition en 2015, le canton de Tours-Ouest se composait de la partie de la ville de Tours délimitée de la façon suivante :

au nord par la Loire à l'est par la rue de la Victoire, la place Gaston-Paillhou, la rue Chanoineau, le boulevard Béranger, la rue Giraudeau, la rue de Boisdenier, la rue Auguste-Chevallier, le boulevard Thiers, le boulevard Marchant-Duplessis, la rue Stéphane-Pitard, la rue Auguste-Chevallier, le pont Saint-Sauveur, le Cher, l'avenue Jean-Portalis, la route des Deux-Lions au sud par la limite communale de Joué-lès-Tours à l'ouest par la limite communale de la Riche

Histoire

Canton créé par le décret du 4 août 1956 (division du canton de Tours-Sud).

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Portail de l'Indre-et-Loire et de la Touraine Portail de Tours

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Château de Plessis-lez-Tours

Castle Historic Site

Jardin botanique de Tours

Museum Park

La Riche

La Riche is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in central France. It is part of the agglomeration of Tours and is named after Notre-Dame-la-Riche Church.

Church Lake

Saint-Clément Church, Tours

Church Fire Station

Notre-Dame-la-Riche Church

Notre-Dame-de-la-Riche Church is a Roman Catholic church building on Rue Georges-Courteline in the old town district of Tours. The town of La Riche is named after it.

Church Landmark

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Canton de Tours-Ouest

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