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Basilique St-Martin Review
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Basilique St-Martin
- Address: Rue Descartes, Tours
- Category: Religious Sites
- Location: Tours
Fodor's Review:
Only two sturdy towers -- the Tour Charlemagne and the Tour de l'Horloge (Clock Tower) -- remain of the great medieval abbey built over the tomb of St. Martin, the city's 4th-century bishop and patron saint. Most of the abbey, which once dominated the heart of Tours, was razed during the French Revolution. Today's bombastic neo-Byzantine church, the Basilique St-Martin, was completed in 1924. There's a shrine to St. Martin in the crypt.
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