Located 15 km south-east of Poitiers, Nouaillé-Maupertuis is a common peri, whose original rural character has been preserved by the quality of its landscape setting, the presence of wooded or farmland on its territory, but its dense town center ventilated, preservation of his abbey site.
Nouaillé-Maupertuis topography is characterized by the presence of a plateau, dug by Miosson Valley and animated some side valleys. Valleys, hills, meandering rivers, agricultural trays, wooden draw the diverse landscape of this area. They determine, in large part, the implementation of the tracks and paths, that of the human habitat, between village and hamlets - after the monastic foundation gave the first impulse.
The name seems Nouaillé after cella novaliacensis that evokes the (small religious school) and newly cleared land.
In the seventh century, at the time when monasticism is booming in Poitou, a priory was founded in Nouaillé, under the control of Saint-Hilaire-le-Grand Poitiers. It is installed in an uninhabited valley bottom, away from the Roman road, the wetlands of an ancient meander of Miosson.
