Saint-Pierre-d'Amilly

Saint-Pierre-d'Amilly is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department in southwestern France.

WWW saintpierredamilly.fr

Geography

The village of Charente-Maritime is at the extreme northeast of the Département, from the Département of Deux-Sèvres and the village of Mauzé-sur-le-Mignon, and from Surgères, the seat of the canton.

Places and monuments

Church of St Paul, built in roughcast limestone in 1871, to replace two older churches that had been ruined by the wars that ravaged the region.
The commune also has a war memorial, near the Church of St Paul.

Economy

The commune is home to the Magernaud site of the National Institute for Agricultural Research, specialising in the improvement of aviculture, heliciculture and apiculture. This site also houses an outpost of GEVES, the Groupe d'étude et de contrôle des variétés et des semences, a seedbank and plant selection institution which works on the homologation of new vegetable varieties. It collaborates also with .