The site features a museum dedicated to the French poet Ronsard, who spent the last twenty years of his life among the Canons Regular there.

In 1092 the priory was founded on the site of a 7th-century oratory by a community of Augustinian Canons Regular to accommodate pilgrims on the way to the shrine of St. James of Campostela in Spain, a purpose it served up to the 18th century.

In the 15th century, the priory benefitted from the generosity of King Louis XI of France who dwelt at times at the neighboring Château de Plessis-lèz-Tours.

The French poet and critic Daniel Leuwers chose the priory as the site for the preservation and display of his conceptual "Poor Books."

In 2011 the painter Zao Wou-Ki was invited by the General Council of Indre-et-Loire to create 14 stained glass windows for the priory refectory.