Roissy Charles de Gaulle TGV Nord A1 A86 Tourist Office La Marne 12 River stop Pier Gourdine Marne river Retrace your steps and go around the town hall Lesches Quai de la Jablines Wander through the alleys, enjoy 12 Quai Saint-Père Square 6 to the front of the abbey church Notre-Dame Quai Savarin aujo Carnetin Foucher de Careil Square 11 des Ardents d. This building was probably A104 10 the town’s heritage and provincial RueGambetta Paul Tessier Thorigny- Lagnysur Marne constructed on the site of a monastery built sur-Marne Place Rue du Château Fort Gare SNCF Marchande Rue d’Orgemont SNCF Lagny-Thorigny Chalifert charm, stroll along the quays... Quai du Pré Long Rue R. Lallemant Fer de Ch. du Rue Square around 650 by the Irish monk, Saint Fursy. Dampmart Rue Delambre Rhin et Danube History and the A3centuries have witnessed these Pomponne Rue J. le Paire le J. Rue Lagny-sur- Disneyland Paris Travel through time to the heart numerous transformations, restorations and Marne Montévrain Gare TGV-RER RueSaint- Marne la Vallée reconstructions. In 1205 work began on a Saint-Thibault- Chessy of its history when it began in the Pass. des Écoles des-Vignes grandiose project: an abbey church 110 metres Conches sur Gouvernes Chanteloup- Gare RER Gondoire en-Brie Sauveur 9 Rue des Tanneurs Rue des Étuves Serris - Montévrain 650s to today. long with a vault 27 metres high. Unfortunately Guermantes Val d'Europe RER A Bussy-Saint-Martin Gare RER it never progressed beyond the choir beside Torcy Bussy-Saint-Georges Rue Saint-Denis the nave of the previous edifice. After this nave Carrefour Gare RER de Verdun Rue Gambetta disappeared in the 17th century, a steeple was Bussy-St-Georges Rue Paul Bert Cour de l’Abbaye : cartographie et réalisation Conception, < Direction A4 This is built, then a second which now opens onto an Paris Jossigny place de la Fontaine 1 Collégien Ruedu the centre of the historical medievala , a square town. in Rue d’Austerlitz 8 Rue Saint-PaulTemple 5 imposing choir: 48 metres long and 37 metres d Still an active market square, it has been the wide. The chapels with different depths rhythm 7 3 4 Square stage for markets and famous Champagne Av. de la République Rue Saint-Furcy the apse. On the western wall, on either side of RueHaubert Ruedes 2 Jeanne d’Arc trade fairs for almost nine centuries. RueJ. lePaire l’Aître Lions 6 the organ case, there are vestiges of the 12th Rue de 1 5 Behind the town hall, away from the urban Rue du Dr Naudier century nave. In the chapel dedicated to the In the middle of the square, the bustle, is the surprising courtyard of the Rue St-Laurent A6 Vierge Marie, 2 events have marked the history Saint-Fursy fontaine Place Foch Place de Place de la Fontaine Rue H. Bouteiller abbey. In the past there were barns and COSTA DA Bernard © has passed through centuries Rue Vacheresse l’Hôtel de Ville of the abbey church. In 1126, decimated for and eras, which its different elements show: Ruede la stables here. In the centre towers a majestic Glaissière the second time in a century by the terrible a central tank from the 12th century and Rue P. paulownia in a small, green, fenced area. Square «ergotism» (a strong fever caused by ergot bronze patterns from the 16th century where d’Haslach Lacrique Rue des Poids In Spring this Chinese tree is covered with fungi which infects rye), the population flocked ntil aux Lombards Gallieni L Lagny-sur Marne is one of the 18 districts in the Communauté the «miraculous» water flows from. N t Ge al a Boulevard du G e e pretty lilac flowers which have a violet ill M to the chapel and the misfortune was stopped ie Rue St-Laurent du S d’Agglomération de Marne et Gondoire. the legend says that the Irish monk, Indeed, Fursy hit V e perfume. On the façade of no.5, «Le Méridien», e lé by their prayers. A104 A region with a subtle blend of modernism and tradition, O E l Boulevard i n a rock with his stick, causing spring water A Square a sundial tells the time «sic vita fugit»: Orly e a preserved natural environment, cultural heritage with soothing qualities to gush out. Paul Lévêque Jeanne d’Arc tread on Lagny-sur-Marne soil S al «So life flies». and remarkable history. de Gaulle Boulevard Charpentier SNCF 3 times. In 1430, she prayed with young girls and The team of Marne and Gondoire Tourist Office invites you Pedestrian area a child thought dead for 3 daysTGV came Sud-Est back to to discover the region and wishes you an enjoyable visit. 100 meters life just long enough to be baptised. It is for this reason that Jeanne d’Arc was canonised several centuries later. It is noteworthy that 3 2 Next to the Cinq Pignons, the Lagny-sur-Marne joined the prized circle of the The square is surrounding by buildings. passage de l’Arcade is the former Villes Johannique in 2013. Fotolia - Minoret B. - Godin -J. OTMG - Lagny-sur-Marne de Ville - Triffault C. : photos Crédits The oldest, the Cinq Pignons a , with its access to the Saint-Pierre abbey. The oldest stained glass windows were five gables, was host to the Champagne c This sole entrance in the abbey’s created by Claudius Lévêque in the second trade fairs. Traders from all over Europe took rampart was closed with a wooden half of the 19th century. The blue shelter there for nearly two centuries. This portcullis. Its traces can still be seen 4 ones, situated near the Vierge Marie Office de Tourisme de Marne & Gondoire covered market still has the arcades from on the walls. The front wall bears 2015-2016 Année The town hall chapel, created by Calixte Poupart, 2 rue du Chemin de Fer that period in the 12th and 13th century, the revolutionary inscription from b is installed in the former 77400 Lagny-sur-Marne - convent buildings. Go inside to enjoy the were inaugurated in 1955. which open onto vaulted areas help up by 1793, «Unité Indivisible de la Répu [email protected] sight of the 18th century cloister strong pillars. Little by little the edifice grew blique, Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité c The abbey church was classified as the view of the patio where works by and 01 64 02 15 15 and changed. Today, it is home to businesses, ou la Mort»: Indivisible unity of a national heritage site in 1886. Lagny-sur-Marne artists are regularly tourisme.marneetgondoire.fr particularly Thé Art Café, one of Lagny-sur- the Republic, Liberty, Equality, exhibited. The paintings in the first floor Marne’s trendy addresses: a combination Fraternity or Death». Once inside, of a San Francisco Coffee House, a Parisian note the engraved crosses on the gallery are a reminder that Lagny-sur- Marne was one of the artistic melting pots literary café and a tearoom in London. southern wall of the passage which Marne et Gondoire Tourisme a indicate that the place is under b of neoimpressionism painting. d d’hui divine protection. d’hie rteofeth he ehe a e eae In the Square Paul Tessier you can still climb up veet cien Le a e em the tour desaujo pêcheurs: from the Middle Ages On your way back to the place de la Fountain, in the ed the town was protected by a fortified wall. It had riquerue du Temple, you will see the remains of the From the Middles Ages, the existing ie 5 doors and 11 towers, lined with deep trenches. ancient Saint-Fursy church rue des Tanneurs was a noisy, lively va . Admire the finesse of l The tour des pêcheurs is the last remaining vestige place due to the many tanneries where et the arches and the sculpted garlands which frame e visible to the eye. It still has part of its round pathway animal skins were worked into leather. w f the portal e. It shows fantastic animals and and an arrow slit through which it was possible to The craftsmen used water from the Ru, an n strange figures entangled in leaves and bunches of e watch over a wooden bridge, which once stood in old arm of the Marne river which no longer a grapes. The vine was indeed an important part of e the place of the existing Manoury bridge. the local cultural landscape until the 19th century. exists. In the 19th century the tanneries d eh Today, at the foot of this bridge, the Marne and On the 19th July 1683, this church received were moved to the west of the town on the e a Gondoire Tourist Office team welcomes and Louis XIV who donated an altarpiece with golden banks of the Marne, where there were also d . ef ne informs visitors all year round in a colourful and columns, today conserved in the Notre-Dame des e lime kilns and shipbuilding to facilitate o r re Ma dynamic area. It also manages the river pier which Ardents church. the transport of gypsum from the Annet- the e the e Sold during the French Revolution, practically sur-Marne quarries. bae ke eofe provides a comfortable stop for sailors and safe nothing remains of this church. A brasserie is now 10 access to boats for excursions and other activities. Further on, the At nightfall, the pier f , with its very contem porary installed in what remains. rue du Château Fort named after the 9 château Trompette, or «trumpet castle», which was design, is lit up by countless LEDs, decorating the Tourist Office previously located on the corner of the rue Jacques Marne with multicoloured reflections.