La Laie des Pots

Discover the remains of a 12th-century water supply network.


Villers-Cotterêts was a town without water. In 1182, Elisabeth de Vermandois, wife of Philippe d'Alsace, Count of Flanders, decided to pipe the water that flowed from certain points in the Retz forest, known as "Les Pleurs de la Coste de Faicte de Rest".
This network of pipes, pottery, manholes with plugs (also known as margelles or pots), gates, aqueducts or vaults was classified as a Historic Monument on July 29, 2013.
Follow the "La Salamandre" trail to discover this network, which supplied water to the château and then the town of Villers-Cotterêts for almost 700 years.

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