The Saint-Pierre-Ville church stands at the heart of the Blanqui-Mirabeau district, a real little village in the middle of the city. The district owes its unusual layout to a certain island-like character, due mainly to the Loire, which borders it to the north, but above all to three major roads that close off the other three sides: rue Mirabeau to the west, boulevard Heurteloup to the south and the motorway interchange to the east.
The church is open only during services.
The history of the Saint-Pierre-Ville church cannot be separated from that of Saint-Pierre-des-Corps, nor from that of Tours. Indeed, on
the eve of the Revolution the situation was rather unusual: dedicated as the church of Saint-Pierre-des-Corps, it stood
inside the 17th-century walls of Tours, while the parish attached to it lay “outside the walls”…
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Rue Blanqui, long known as rue du Faubourg-Saint-Pierre-des-Corps, extended the Grand-rue (today’s rue du Commerce, rue Colbert and
rue Albert-Thomas) beyond the 14th-century city walls. The two streets were linked by the Porte d’Orléans, which stood level with
today’s rue du Port-Feu-Hugon. Both followed the course of the ancient road that crossed the city along the Loire and which,
to the east, led to Amboise…
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