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Saint-Pierre-des-Corps appears to be a city of passage, tucked away between the Loire and Cher rivers, irrigated by rail and separated from Tours by a freeway. Born with industry, the town has only one historic monument: a steam locomotive, the Pacific Chapelon 231 E 41. However, the town of workers and railwaymen has many other industrial treasures, such as the Doubinski factory and the immense reinforced concrete nave of the former SNCF General Store.
Saint-Pierre-des-Corps is also a town of memory. Destroyed during the Second World War, it was rebuilt by sensitive, cultured architects such as Jean Dorian and the Architurone agency, who recreated a low-density habitat dotted with squares and gardens. Behind the modern city, the wells, the market gardens of yesteryear and the "rottes", those furtive paths leading to hidden gardens, remain.
Saint-Pierre-des-Corps is also a place of creativity. The town is dotted with contemporary architecture carefully designed by talented architects such as Jean-Yves Barrier, Alain Gourdon, Philippe Montandon, François Bouvard, Françoise-Hélène Jourda and Patrick Bouchain.
A city of industrial times, built and rebuilt after the war by men and women of good will, Saint-Pierre-des-Corps is a city of modern treasures and secret beauties, designed to delight those who know it, or those who discover it.
Saint-Pierre-des-Corps is also a town of memory. Destroyed during the Second World War, it was rebuilt by sensitive, cultured architects such as Jean Dorian and the Architurone agency, who recreated a low-density habitat dotted with squares and gardens. Behind the modern city, the wells, the market gardens of yesteryear and the "rottes", those furtive paths leading to hidden gardens, remain.
Saint-Pierre-des-Corps is also a place of creativity. The town is dotted with contemporary architecture carefully designed by talented architects such as Jean-Yves Barrier, Alain Gourdon, Philippe Montandon, François Bouvard, Françoise-Hélène Jourda and Patrick Bouchain.
A city of industrial times, built and rebuilt after the war by men and women of good will, Saint-Pierre-des-Corps is a city of modern treasures and secret beauties, designed to delight those who know it, or those who discover it.