The municipality of Sancé, with a population of 1964 inhabitants, is part of the township north of Macon. It borders with the municipalities of Sennecé-les-Macon, Hurigny, Macon, Feillens, Replonges.
It is adherent to the WACLAC (Urban Community of Macon Val de Saône) and is twinned with the town of Vernet la Varenne in the Puy de Dome.
The municipality is composed of three plates, the Saône plain which occupies nearly a quarter of the area, at an average altitude of 175 m NGF, the plateau on the central part of the town, offers a rural landscape, it is located at an altitude of about 200 m. The hill of Grisière occupies the last quarter west with an average altitude of 286 m, it reached the 300 rating in a place called "The Senétrière" and is a sample of the kind of landscape of hills of the Mâconnais. Its total area is 656 ha.
Sanciacus the Sancé Thousand Year, has a past history and even prehistory. Indeed, the island of St. John or Palm Island is undoubtedly one of the oldest inhabited sites in the region (Neolithic). It is said that the little son of Charlemagne preparing the Treaty of Verdun in 843 which played the fate of Europe.
Traditions had settled, but they have disappeared. Thus, the pilgrimage to Saint Paul was held January 25, the day of the conversion of Saint Paul. A Mass was celebrated at the Church of Sancé, there came from neighboring communities for the healing of fear. Children fearful, but sometimes grown-ups, attended Mass, prayed, embraced the right foot of the statue of the Saint and did a charity (Our Lady of Loreto where the trunk under the statue of St. Paul, right looking at the chorus). We had to be careful in coming to church and on the way home, not looking back, if not a cure was not obtained. This pilgrimage has ceased in the late 19th century, but some still remember that it was customary to give children the altar on Maundy Thursday. This practice was said to give strength to young children. Traditions are lost, but the monument keeps alive the memory of that past is forgotten.
The coat of arms Sancé was borrowed from Jacques Mareschal, son of John Mareschal, Lord of Combefort (Wood-d'Oingt), and Anne Bonivart. Can be seen engraved on the tombstone of the Lord, and the cornerstone of the chapel he built in the Church of St. Paul. On this standing stone wall, one can see Jacques and Claudine his lady, in costume of the time, side by side, watching their son Claude lang and on which the following inscription: Here lieth Sir noble and powerful ... Mareschal, Knight , lord of Senozan, founder of this chapel, and Busseul noble lady, his wife, Lady of Saint-Martin and Prizy and Claude Mareschal, their son, that lady passed away and her son after her, the 10th April MVXII . (1512). God rest their souls. The definition heraldry is: old Ecu, a gold band gules, charged with three shells of gold too. To mark the personality in Sancé, the City Council adopted this emblem worn regularly by most associations sancéennes.
Along the main road No. 906, north of Macon in the ZAC Platières, a major business area home to several shops and services.
