The Top 7 Natural Monuments around Tours
Tours’s landscape is a beautiful place to explore — something that you can best experience by visiting one of our 7
beautiful natural monuments around Tours. To help you find the one for, you can see all the details you need to explore the best natural monuments, and better plan your next outdoor adventure!
beautiful natural monuments around Tours. To help you find the one for, you can see all the details you need to explore the best natural monuments, and better plan your next outdoor adventure!
Last updated: November 4, 2025
Prébendes d'Oé Garden
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Built in 1872 on a former marshy area, the Prébendes d’Oé garden is the green lung of the city center of Tours. Designed like an English garden, it invites you …
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Confluence of the Cher and Loire Rivers
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Small asphalt road between Berthenay and Savonnières. The end of the world is where the Cher and the Loire meet.
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Botanical Garden
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Between Loire and Cher, the botanical garden is a must in the city of Tours. The rich diversity of species that makes up its park makes this place the most …
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Villandry Castle and its Gardens
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The Château de Villandry is a beautiful Renaissance castle that was inspired by the gardening art of the 16th century. There are ornamental gardens, fruit and vegetable gardens, a water …
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Le Menhir de Vaujours
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The Menhir of Vaujours is a leaning megalithic stone, planted vertically which dates from the Neolithic era. It is a huge stone over 3.50 meters high and 1.50 meters wide.
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The petrifying caves of Savonnière
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opening hours
February / March: 10h-12h / 14h-18h
April to June: 10h-19h
July / August: 9h30-19h30
September: 10h-19h
October / November: 10h-12h / 14h-18h
There are guided tours (duration approx. 1 hour).
February / March: 10h-12h / 14h-18h
April to June: 10h-19h
July / August: 9h30-19h30
September: 10h-19h
October / November: 10h-12h / 14h-18h
There are guided tours (duration approx. 1 hour).
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Île de Quiquengrogne
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This preserved space is a paradise for ornithologists. Far from the traffic, the calm is distracted only by the solemn flow of the Loire and the beating of the wings of the herons surprised by your fortuitous appearance.
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