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Since 2006, the PROG! diary has listed all the events in Touraine (exhibitions, culture, young audiences, sports) and their practical information. It's the ideal tool for making sure you don't miss a single opportunity! Every month, the magazine is distributed free of charge throughout the department. There's also a digital version, and since 2022, PROG! has had a website with an optimized search engine that lets you find current events in just a few clicks. There are also interviews and other features to help you find out more about our local artists!

Since 2006, TV Tours has become a benchmark in local news. With a strong local presence, the channel relies on young, dynamic teams, in addition to the solid structure of the Nouvelle République group to which it belongs. With an overall audience of 238,600 viewers, TV Tours has found its target. A key appointment is "Local génial", a culture and society program broadcast Monday to Friday at 6pm. And you won't want to miss the news several times a day, the game show "Qui veut gagner des rillons?", or the weekend diary!

International-sur-Loire, an international and intercultural consulting company, was founded by Britta Vincent, German by birth and Tourangelle at heart. Whether for foreign visitors, students or employees who are settling in the region and need translation services and/or assistance in preparing their arrival and/or optimising their stay in Touraine, or to ensure their adaptation and daily management, Britta offers à la carte support. And if you are planning a trip abroad, particularly for language stays, she will be able to advise you on how best to approach this surprising and enriching experience.

A must for science students in Tours, as a bookstore specializing in the subject, the Unithèque broadened its horizons a few years ago. Since 2017, it has welcomed the collections of the former Boîte à Livres de l'Etranger, which specialized in foreign language books. If we still see anatomy or biology books in the front of the library, inside, the habits have changed. The shelves of the two rooms are still well stocked, but more varied, with medicine but also methods and novels in English, Spanish or Italian. To find your way around, ask for advice, you will be well informed, and we can even order the book if necessary.

For more than 100 years, Institut de Touraine has welcomed more than 2,500 students from all over the world each year to take French courses in a beautiful downtown building. It also provides training for teachers of French as a foreign language. Is its success due to the idea that French is spoken in Touraine "without an accent"? (a mirage for real linguists!). In any case, the Institute is working seriously: a member of the Groupement FLE, it has a convention with the University of Tours. The courses are adapted to the level and the objectives of each one, with a personalized follow-up. The place delivers diplomas like the DELF, the DALF or the TCF.

This Touraine agency is specialized in the conception of corporate or private events. Companies can call upon the agency headed by the dynamic Nathalie Molisson for the organization of a congress, a seminar, an inauguration, a fashion show or a product launch. At NMC Organisation, we have no shortage of original ideas to make your private events unique and chic: birthdays and weddings. The professionals ensure the conception, the implementation and the accompaniment of the event.

The Bibliothèque Centrale, also called "la BM" by the people of Touraine, is an impressive building with a green roof on the banks of the Loire. It is a meeting point for heavy readers and the curious, where you will find heritage collections, a fine selection of novels and other art books and comic books, a collection of CDs and DVDs and a children's area. The subscription card allows you to borrow books from all the city's libraries. Conferences, meetings with authors, stories for children, exhibitions... The librarians have no shortage of ideas to bring the place and its treasures to life, including one Sunday afternoon a month, so that culture is part of our daily lives.

RTL 2 is THE pop-rock radio station, but not only! This national radio station, with its local offshoot in Touraine, offers a fine musical program that will appeal to music lovers past and present. On the local side, there's local news, with weather and traffic updates between 6:30 and 9 a.m., then at midday with journalist Laurine Guilhen. Host Sébastien Renaud presents his musical discoveries between 12 and 4pm every day of the week. Add to this national programs for the rest of the day.

TMV is a free weekly magazine distributed all over the city. It brings you the local news in a dynamic and fun way. Each week, you'll find a feature story, a portrait, local, national and international news, and a cultural agenda so you don't miss out on anything going on in the city... With a lively and alert tone, often tinged with humor, the weekly magazine, which has already published more than 400 issues, keeps you informed so that you can live in Tours at the right pace. And among our favorite pages, there is of course the TMV horoscope, as offbeat as possible and always funny. The magazine in PDF and the articles are available on the website, in case you didn't find the newspaper in your favorite shops.

The Info Tours website is local information in a nutshell: fast, clear and efficient! You can read the news of Tours and its surroundings in various themes. Culture, news, world news, local politics, sports, employment: there is everything, in the form of articles that are often brief and factual, or sometimes with a slightly offbeat tone, depending on the subject and the writer. The Info Tours Facebook page relays most of the site's publications, which allows the most connected to follow the news closely. Since its association with the webzine 37 degrés in 2017, InfoTours continues on the same line: a day-to-day news and without fuss, closer to the daily life of Tourangeaux.

La NR, or Nounou to its friends, is one of the major titles in the PQR, with an average circulation exceeding 135,000 copies in 2022, according to figures from the Observatoire de la Presse. From its headquarters in Tours, it covers two regions (Centre and Poitou-Charentes) and five départements (Indre-et-Loire, Loir-et-Cher, Indre, Vienne and Deux-Sèvres). Every month, more than 4.5 million Internet users follow the news from their region via the constantly evolving website and mobile applications that make NR accessible everywhere.

Since 2017, the Tours Plus agglomeration has become Tours Métropole Val de Loire, thanks to the battle led by its elected officials. The 22 municipalities it comprises therefore now share many everyday services, to be found in detail on the website and app. Among them: waste collection, management of the Parc de la Gloriette, water and mobility. In addition to these missions, there are major projects such as the second tramway line or the Climate Air Energy Plan.

Brosset Immobilier remains one of the privileged interlocutors of those who wish to find the housing of their dreams. The agency has a wide range of properties for sale and for rent. It is also one of the first regional operators in the management of buildings. More than 40 years at the service of its customers. You will also find specialized services with prestige real estate, commercial and corporate real estate, new buildings and tax exemption. Small speciality: the mandate of VIP sale for a top-of-the-range treatment.

Behind this site is InterLoire, the interprofession of Loire Valley wines. Created by the winegrowers and merchants of Anjou, Saumurois, Touraine and the Nantes region, it groups together more than a hundred appellations, from Nantes to Sancerre, passing through Blois and Touraine. Still wines or fine bubbles, white, red or rosé. A professional platform, the site also allows the general public to discover the rich agenda of events (thematic stays, guided tours, or "Vignes, vins & randos"...).

A pioneer of coworking spaces in Tours, Waza Coworking was created by Julien Dargaisse, Touraine's golden boy in the digital sector. What started out as a simple shared workspace has grown into a huge, colorful and cosy central coworking space, with a surface area of 1,000^m2 comprising meeting rooms, or rooms equipped with computers, which can be rented by the half-day, day, week or month, along with a relaxation area. The venue also hosts events related to the digital world and start-ups, relayed via social networks.

Century 21 agencies have a solid knowledge of the Touraine real estate market. The network favors the autonomy and responsibility of each of its members, making each agency almost unique. Whether you visit the agency in Joué-lès-Tours, Tours Nord or Tours Centre, you can count on professionals to listen to you and offer you the solution best suited to your needs. Each team is located in a specific geographical area, which it masters perfectly in order to accompany you as best as possible and to satisfy you.

From dawn, news and good humor are local with France Bleu Touraine, and televised on France 3 since September 2021. On the air and on its Facebook page, the radio station keeps us informed all day long of the political, economic or cultural news of Touraine. In connection with its listeners, the radio allows them to interact to make announcements, win gifts or question guests at 02 47 38 10 20. Hosts, journalists and technicians are on deck from morning to night to keep us informed and entertained!

To find out what's happening in the Centre Region, there's nothing like the news programme of the public channel France 3 Centre-Val de Loire. Several programs are also produced in the region (reports, interviews, documentaries, magazines...). The newscasts are also available in replay on the channel's website, as are other local programmes. Since September 2021 you can also watch the France Bleu Touraine radio morning show live. The public service thus promises you the news at your fingertips and close to home!

Director of publication: Philippe Roussy.

Editorial Director: Frédéric Bris.

The Touraine éco quarterly is the magazine of the Touraine Chamber of Commerce and Industry. In its pages, it highlights local economic news through portraits of local companies as well as the actions of the ICC. Produced by professional journalists, we can count on the quality of the information and texts offered, which sometimes reveal issues of interest to professionals in the sector, but also to the general public. The publication is available free of charge (also online on the ICC website: www.touraine.cci.fr).

Tours Métropole le Mag is the institutional magazine distributed by Tours Métropole (since 2018). The principle remains the same as for its predecessor Tours Plus le Mag: a magazine written by a team of journalists and communicators, with a clear and direct tone, to highlight the actions of the Metropolis and inform the inhabitants. Reports, portraits, and graphics make it possible to tackle sometimes technical subjects in a varied way. It also includes practical news (calendar of events, works...). Published three times a year, it is complemented by the Tours Loire Valley magazines, which focus more on tourism and economic attractiveness.