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Place Plumereau Review
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Place Plumereau 
- Address: Bordered by Rues du Commerce, Briçonnet, de la Monnaie, and du Grand-Marché, Tours
Fodor's Review:
North from the Basilique St-Martin to the river is Le Vieux Tours, the lovely medieval quarter. A warren of quaint streets, wood-beam houses, and grand mansions once home to 15th-century merchants, it has been gentrified with chic apartments and pedestrianized streets -- Tours's college students and tourists alike love to sit at the cafés lining Place Plumereau, once the town's carroi aux chapeaux (hat market). Lining the square, Nos. 1 through 7 form a magnificent series of half-timber houses; note the woodcarvings of royal moneylenders on Nos. 11 and 12. At the top of the square a vaulted passageway leads on to a cute medieval Place St-Pierre-le-Puellier. Running off the Place Plumereau are other streets adorned with historic houses, notably Rue Briçonnet -- No. 16 is the Maison de Tristan with a noted medieval staircase.
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