Cloître de la Psalette
Cathédrale de Tours, 37000 Tours
Indre-et-Loire
Centre-Val de Loire
The cloister of Psalette, located on the side of the cathedral of Tours(Ballots,Towers), is compound(made up) of three galleries architecture of which is partly flamboyant and partly Renaissance. A staircase in remarkable screw, which is reminiscent that of the wing François Ier of the castle of Blois, leads(drives) to the scriptorium and to the bookshop of the chapter. In the XIXth century, Balzac pulled one of his characters of The human comedy, the priest of Tours(Ballots,Towers) there.
Tags
Édifice religieux, Monument historique, Villes et Pays d'art et d'histoire, Patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO
Access
Access by the north shoulder of the cathedral Saint-Gatien
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