Just 3 kilometers from Tours, Saint-Pierre-des-Corps whose history is closely linked to that of Tours is located in the Indre-et-Loire department. hub of communication since the nineteenth century, its station is crossed by TGV from Paris to Tours, La Rochelle, Bordeaux and Toulouse, but also connecting Paris to Lille, Lyon and Strasbourg.
However, initially, the city was not destined to become a communication center. In Roman times, Saint-Pierre-des-Corps was none other than the cemetery of the city of Tours where Turons proceeded to the immolation of their deceased. Then, around the eleventh century, the town finally draws contours in the varenne, vast meadow, surrounded by the river Loire in the north and the Cher River in the south. She then turned on vegetable production by exploiting its soil fertilized by the silt of the Loire and Cher. From this period remain the Rottes, paths traced by the repeated passage of animals, giving his typical charm to the city. Around 1824 the drilling of the Berry canal allows the municipality to develop a relatively ephemeral fluvial activity. The iron horse of the arrival put an end to the Navy.
