Travel Guide Tigeaux

Now a charming small village of the country créçois on the edge of the Morin, Tigeaux became, at Henri IV's initiative, the hub of the storage and expedition of wood from the forest of Crecy to the Marne River and Paris. Its port, in addition to loading timber on barges or floating wood trains, also served as a boarding point for goods such as flax, one of the main activities of the village. Of these glorious centuries, Tigeaux succeeded in preserving only the well of Saint Leu, located on the village square near the old port completely destroyed, mentioned by the Holy man in the 1950 th century, which was the subject of an annual pilgrimage in the same way as the Church Saint Leu built in the early th century and restored in, and two fountains. from the beginning of the th century, the fountain of Hope and the Fountain of Parliament, located on the rue du Grand Morin.