The Grand Hôtel de Tours occupies one of the most visible corners in the city, facing place de la Gare and welcoming arrivals with a façade designed to impress. Built to signal comfort and status to travellers, it combines classical proportions with subtle Art Deco features most notably the gilded details crowning the corner bay.
The stacked balconies create a vertical procession of windows, each offering a slightly different view over the station square, while the curved rooftop pavilion gives the whole building a sense of theatre, as if the architecture itself were part of the journey.
It is a reminder of a time when hotels were not just places to sleep, but symbols of movement, modernity and social life, anchoring the railway in the everyday fabric of the city rather than standing apart from it.
Part of the “Windows of the Loire” Series
Each Wednesday, we share a glimpse of the Loire Valley through its windows — small frames of everyday beauty and quiet reflection.
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