Building Architecture

The decision to build a conference centre in Tours was made by Jean Royer (Mayor of Tours from 1959 to 1995).
The project was entrusted to Jean Nouvel (designer of the Arab World Institute in Paris, Lyon Opera House, the Agbar Tower in Barcelona and Kansaï Airport in Japan), who was awarded the Pritzker Prize in 2008, and was completed on 17 September 1993 : Vinci, with its unique design, opened its doors, making Tours one of France’s leading “Convention” destinations.
The Vinci International Congress Centre in Tours draws its inspiration from the universality of the great Leonardo da Vinci, through the wide range of visitors it welcomes and themes it hosts.

Choose Vinci and you are on familiar terms with “the idea of Genius” !

A unique architectural achievement !

Thanks to architectural feat and innovative techniques, Vinci boasts of 26,000 m² of exploitable space out of a total surface area of 28,000 m². Rising 5 storeys high, it contains 3 suspended auditoriums and an immense modulable panoramic plateau accommodating 22 committee rooms. And finally, a total of 4,500m² of exhibition/dining area spread over several levels, connected by escalators and staircases providing ease of access and communication, are also available.

These characteristics make the Tours congress centre one of the 10 largest of its kind in France, out of the hundred or more in operation across the country.

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