Tours - Cathedral of St Gatien

In Tours, opposite the Archbishop's Palace, to the north, is the twin-towered Gothic Cathedral of St-Gatien, dedicated to the first bishop of Tours, which was begun in the 12th C but not completed until the 16th.

The west front, flanked by twin towers, with three doorways, is richly decorated in Flamboyant style, while the towers show the first signs of Renaissance influence. To the left is the Cloître de la Psalette (15th-16th C).

The walls of the nave consist almost entirely of windows. The choir and the chapels round the ambulatory have beautiful 13th C stained glass. The rose windows in the north and south transepts are 14th C. In the ambulatory, adjoining the south transept, is the beautiful marble Renaissance tomb of