Culture and Leisure activities
All year long, there is a wide variety of events happening at the University, in Tours, and around the Loire Volley : cultural, sporting events, scientific events...
Loire Valley, an invitation to travel in a Unesco world heritage site.
Many events, especially University's ones, are free and open to all.
Tours and its surroundings offer an ideal environment to live in. Share our art of living !
To find out what's coming up, take a look at the various event schedules:
Tourist Office of the City of Tours
Touring around - by bike, trekking
Walks and Hikes
Five "Grandes Randonnées" hiking trails cross the Touraine - including the famous GR655, leading to Saint-Jacques de Compostela - while 374 walking trails accredited by the French Hiking Federation criss-cross the local countryside, its towns and villages.
You can download the hiking circuits maps on this website :
https://tours-metropole.fr/rando