The commune is located in the Burzenland ethnographic area, in the eastern part of the county, at the foot of the Carpathian Mountains.

A new center was built closer to Brașov during the communist era to house migrating workers for the tractor and bus factories in the city.

[4] Natives include Zaharia Bârsan (1878–1948), a playwright, poet, and actor and Reinhold Batschi (born 1942), a former Romanian rower and leading Australian rowing coach.

[3] Sânpetru's main tourist attraction is the land around Lempes hill, a partially forested promontory which is a reservation for wild flora.

The ecology here is somewhat emperiled by the nearby presence of an artificial lake for depositing tar waste, herds of sheep.