Tours, Loire Valley
The Basilique de St-Martin in Tours is a neo-Byzantine basilica on the site of previous churches built in honor of St. Martin, bishop of Tours in the 4th century.
Next to it are two Romanesque towers and a Renaissance cloister surviving from the earlier basilica.
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