- History:
- In Gallo-Roman territory Monts is occupied by several fields, whose remains have been identified both on the plateau (the Champs Perrons the Gagneraie ....), in the valley (the Fleurial. ..). Two areas Carolingian their successors, the villa Rançay north, right bank of the Indre, and the villa Monts south, left bank. Then the village grew around the church built halfway up the hill.
- In the Middle Ages, Indre, which constituted the major axis of the parish was run ten mills, with 7 remaining. The sides of the valley of the Indre is a natural site classified since 1965.
- Setting up the edge of the Indre, in the 18th century, a manufacturer of wire later became royal blizzard favored the expansion of the county, and marriage to Monts of the former king of England in 1937 has made the name of the village throughout Europe. During the last war, Monts housed an internment camp, which the Moor, a monument commemorates. The CEA, which succeeded in blowing snow, has contributed significantly to the growth of the population.
- Heritage: Besides the river itself, it consists of four beautiful castles, picturesque six mills, a Romanesque church and part of an impressive stone bridge.
- Castles: The most prestigious is that of Cande, built in 1508 by family Briconnet on a rocky outcrop overlooking the Indre. In 1864 a wealthy planter in Cuba, Santiago del Castillo, he added a wing neo-Gothic, and in 1927 the billionaire Charles Bedaux has built Cande "American" (telephone, golf, electric organ ...). The castle and its vast park, properties of the General Council are open to visitors. Here June 3, 1937 King Edward VIII after his abdication, married Wallis Simpson, a wealthy American divorcee. You can read, engraved on the woodwork of the room by the Duke of Windsor itself, the date of marriage: VI-III-37 (6th month, 3rd day). The three other castles are hidden deep in their park: Ortières is a mansion of the late 15th century, Roche has replaced the 18th century fortress disappeared and was extended to 1860 in the Second Empire style. It is now a handsome edifice in length with two wings of the same height and roof pierced by nine skylights. Le Breuil, built in 1881 in Renaissance style, dominates the Indre the outskirts of town. Bequeathed to the University of Tours, he has a park which is a protected site, which houses a 17th century manor house called the Old Breuil. Among the more modest buildings include the old manor house Clos, on the plateau, the manor of Fresnaye on the edge of the Indre, which replaced a fortress belonging to the Earl of Montgomery (there remains a wall), and the fortified farm of Robinières, clearly visible from the road, the edge of Ballan. In the village around the church, one can see several medieval houses and the old city hall in 1840, became media.
- Mills: The bridge over the Indre has two mills close to each other, including one called the Red Cross, to chaining of bricks. It was transformed in 1881 to raise the water at the Chateau du Breuil, then sheltered from 1914 to 1918 war wounded within the first siege of the Red Cross in Touraine. On the small road Artannes the right bank of the Indre, two mills are facing, that of Fleurial, square tower with pink plaster still fitted with its wheel, and that of Breuil, triangular. Route du Val de l'Indre, upstream of the bridge, the mill Beaumer has been transformed into a large flour mill in 1867 by the lord of Cande. Further upstream still, road Montbazon the mill of Fresnaye, who has kept his wheel is in a charming mock Tudor style recalling the Anglo-Norman. The mills of the former blowing Ripault, located in the CEA and are not visible. One of them has been transformed into a museum of powders.
- The church is the oldest monument Monts. Cited in 1114, it belonged to the monks of the Abbey of St-Julien de Tours, who also own the Priory Rançay and mill (now the Fleurial). Halfway down the slope south of the Indre, the church has preserved the 12th century novel by his bedside. The nave was rebuilt in 1879 by Gustave Guerin, with a beautiful fresco representing Edgar Judgment. In the Romanesque apse, one can see a fresco showing restored very God in majesty.
- The Commissioner for Atomic Energy: Blowing snow, which took in 1786 the estate of a wire drawing created in 1772 using four mills on the Indre to crush the charcoal burdock mixed with sulfur and saltpeter. Several explosions have partially destroyed the blowing snow. The largest took place in October 1943 it has killed 55 civilians, many German soldiers and that 140 injured and extensive damage to surrounding material. The former is now blowing CEA in 1962.
- The viaduct was built in millstone, was inaugurated in 1851 by the future Napoleon III. It allows the Paris-Bordeaux to cross the valley of the Indre, with 59 arches. When the TGV, it has been the longest switch France.
