• Dave HipplerEurope 2025Traveler
    Tours Cathedral - Cathédrale Saint-Gatien
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    Tours, France

    Apr 20–21 in France ⋅ 🌧 48 °F

    We were due for a bad travel day, and this was it. It was cold and rainy and we were out in it with our luggage too often. But after we checked in to our apartment, we did have a few hours to enjoy Tours. The Cathedral was impressive, especially the stained glass.

    This is a university town with about 30,000 students but most of them are probably home on spring break.

    It's's where Joan of Arc visited, maybe not by choice. I saw a plaque on a wall that she had slept in the building. On Wikipedia, it said she was required to come here to be examined by women to prove she was a virgin. Whew. She passed. And the rest is history.

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