Tours Tramway
The Tours tramway is a tram network which is operated by the city of Tours, in Indre-et-Loire, in the France, French region of Centre-Val de Loire. Originally opening on 31 Aug 2013, the route is nearly 15 kilometers long and has 29 stations. The tramway is made up of a single line called the A, which connects many major areas of the city, such as Tours station. History Original tram network The municipality of Tours considered creating a tramway network as early as 1874. They accepted a proposal from Belgium, Belgian entrepreneur Frédéric-Jean de La Hault, founder of the Compagnie Générale Française de Tramways. His company launched the city’s first public transport network, Horse-drawn streetcar, horse-drawn, on July 8, 1877. In 1889, another operator extended the network to Vouvray, along the Loire for 7.6 km, using Steam locomotive, steam locomotives. In 1898, the Compagnie des tramways de Tours was established to electrify and expand the urban network, which r ...
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Tours
Tours ( ; ) is the largest city in the region of Centre-Val de Loire, France. It is the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Departments of France, department of Indre-et-Loire. The Communes of France, commune of Tours had 136,463 inhabitants as of 2018 while the population of the whole functional area (France), metropolitan area was 516,973. Tours sits on the lower reaches of the Loire, between Orléans and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coast. Formerly named Caesarodunum by its founder, Roman Augustus, Emperor Augustus, it possesses one of the largest amphitheaters of the Roman Empire, the Tours Amphitheatre. Known for the Battle of Tours in 732 AD, it is a National Sanctuary with connections to the Merovingian dynasty, Merovingians and the Carolingian dynasty, Carolingians, with the Capetian dynasty, Capetians making the kingdom's currency the Livre tournois. Martin of Tours, Saint Martin and Gregory of Tours were from Tours. Tours was once part of Touraine, a former provi ...
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Jean Germain (politician)
Jean Germain (11 September 1947 – 7 April 2015) was a French socialist politician. Biography Germain was the president of University of Tours from 1988 to 1993. In 1995 he was elected mayor of Tours and president of the agglomeration community of Tours, Tour(s) Plus. In September 2011 Germain was elected as a Senator from the department of Indre-et-Loire."Sénatoriales : le grand chelem tourangeau" (Senate: The Touraine Grand Slam)
, Socialist Party of France, 26 September 2011, www.ps37.fr/ Germain was a member of the . On 7 April 2015 he was found dead in his garage near his home in Tou ...
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La Ville-aux-Dames
La Ville-aux-Dames () is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in central France. Population See also *Communes of the Indre-et-Loire department The following is a list of the 272 communes of the Indre-et-Loire department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025):

Vernou-sur-Brenne
Vernou-sur-Brenne () is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in central France. Population See also *Communes of the Indre-et-Loire department The following is a list of the 272 communes of the Indre-et-Loire department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025):

Rochecorbon
Rochecorbon () is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department, central France. Population See also *Communes of the Indre-et-Loire department The following is a list of the 272 communes of the Indre-et-Loire department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025):

Parçay-Meslay
Parçay-Meslay () is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department, central France. Population Education the commune has one school with 217 students, with 75 in preschool (''école maternelle'') and 142 in elementary school.Etablissements scolaires
" Parçay-Meslay. Retrieved on September 6, 2016. "En 2015, le village totalise 217 enfants scolarisés de la maternelle au primaire. ..• 75 pour l'école maternelle, répartis en 3 classes • 142 pour l'école primaire, répartis en 6 classes" and "Collège 11 place Holnon - 37210 VOUVRAY" The preschool and elementary school are in the groupe scolaire "Les Néfliers". Students go to a junior high school (''collège'') in Vouvr ...
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Chanceaux-sur-Choisille
Chanceaux-sur-Choisille () is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in central France. Population See also *Communes of the Indre-et-Loire department The following is a list of the 272 communes of the Indre-et-Loire department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025):

Right Of Way
A right of way (also right-of-way) is a specific route that people, animals, vehicles, watercraft, or utility lines travel, or the legal status that gives them the right to do so. Rights-of-way in the physical sense include controlled-access highways, railroads, canals, hiking paths, bridle paths for horses, bicycle paths, the routes taken by high-voltage lines (also known as wayleave), utility tunnels, or simply the paved or unpaved local roads used by different types of traffic. The term ''highway'' is often used in legal contexts in the sense of "main way" to mean any public-use road or any public-use road or path. Some are restricted as to mode of use (for example, pedestrians only, pedestrians, horse and cycle riders, vehicles capable of a minimum speed). Rights-of-way in the legal sense (the right to pass through or to operate a transportation facility) can be created in a number of different ways. In some cases, a government, transportation company, or conservation n ...
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Chambray-lès-Tours
Chambray-lès-Tours (, literally ''Chambray near Tours'') is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department, central France. It is the birthplace of professional footballers Mikaël Silvestre and Adam Ounas. Population Notable people * Nicolas de Préville, professional football player See also *Communes of the Indre-et-Loire department The following is a list of the 272 communes of the Indre-et-Loire department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025):

Joué-lès-Tours
Joué-lès-Tours (, literally ''Joué near Tours'') is a commune in the department of Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire, central France. It is the largest suburb of the city of Tours, and is adjacent to it on the southwest. Population Toponymy The name of Joué-lès-Tours appears in its form "Gaudiacus" in the 6th Century. It corresponds to a toponymic type frequently found in Christian Gaule, that gave different variants depending on the region: Joué (west of France), Jouy (center and north), Jouey (east), Gouy (Normandy/Picardy), Gaugeac, Jaujac (south). It is composed of the Christian name "Gaudius", meaning "fortunate", "blessed" (gaudia > joy, in Latin) and with the Gallo-Roman suffix -ACU, meaning "place of", "property of". History Joué-lès-Tours was the site of the 20 December 2014 Tours police station stabbing. Controversy In February 2010 the mayor, Philippe Le Breton, added the word ''laïcité'' underneath the French national motto on the town hall ...
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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. Population See also * Château de Plessis-lez-Tours * Communes of the Indre-et-Loire department The following is a list of the 272 communes of the Indre-et-Loire department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025):