Located on the set of Amboise (average altitude 110 m), in the extreme south of the township, Souvigny-de-Touraine is bordering with the department of Loir-et-Cher. Its area of 2617 hectares is occupied 65% of the forest, which makes it easy to understand the etymology of his name. Indeed, Souvigny appears for the first time in the 11th century wrote "Salviniacum", from Latin silva, forest area.
The settlement site is very old: the bifaces (flints) discovered at a place called "the sands" are from the Lower Paleolithic, Neolithic habitat existed near Montoussan. At the time a Gallic village settled around a sacred spring. There are several locations of Gallo-Roman villas. Throughout the Middle Ages, the village developed as evidenced by the text of the cartulary of the Archdiocese of Tours (1290) where one finds the "parochia Savigneio of" Parish Souvigné.
The village developed around the parish church dedicated to Saint Saturnin built in the 12th century on the site of a former religious building: the font of the fifth and sixth s demonstrated. It was altered several times and has four statues of the ceramist Avisseau Touraine (XIXth century). Its facade is decorated with a portal to the signs of the Zodiac spread around the paschal lamb, unfortunately greatly mutilated during the Revolution of 1789. The church was listed on the Inventory of Historical Monuments in 1948.
The laundry limestone and wood was built on the site of an ancient Gallic sacred fountain, below the church. It is housed in its present form during the 18th century, remodeled in the 19th and restored in the 1990s. The source that feeds it originates from an underground streams and several more or less intermittent. The most generous disappears at a place called "the Pit".
The fortified manor Sheet, located northwest of the village on the hillside overlooking the right bank of the Hoard, is quoted as 1359. 16th century remains a part of the moat. He been a beautiful restoration by its owners, particularly in terms of its gardens.
It is around the Hoard, a tributary of the Loire where it empties in Amboise, is organized as landscape. It runs through the town in a meandering course that has turned up to 5 mills. On its right bank, north, are beautiful farms.
Note finally the ruins of the priory of Montoussan. Founded in 1198 in the woods by the Seigneur d'Amboise, sold as national property in 1792, it was bought in 1826 by the Duke of Orleans to be finally almost completely demolished in 1842. There remains only the walls with traces of frescoes and the beginnings of a square tower. The windows have long been transported to the church of Civray. The enclosure and outbuildings were planted wood. In the immediate vicinity, at the foot of the hill, a vaulted cellar housed in early 19th century, a gang of counterfeiters. Private property.
Two hiking trails (5 and 10 km) introduced in 2006 allow walkers to approach these sites. The GR3 also means the municipality.
The second and third Sundays of April: hiking and mountain biking.
The second Sunday in June: local assembly (garage sale, games for children, entertainment, restaurants).
In September: various activities as part of European Heritage Days.
The third Sunday in October: Halloween night hike.
The first weekend in December: Christmas market and various animations.
