In the Great Moriah

Next to the Tobacco Museum you will see In den Grooten Moriaen, an inn from ... 1987, opened at the inauguration of the museum, in the former residence of the miller. The name is derived from 'moriaan', a black slave, employed on the tobacco plantations in America. In Western Europe, a moriaan was used as an emblem for the combination of café and tobacco shop, a practice that was even mandatory in France. In Wervik, since the French period, there were also some such café-tobacco shops and in the center, there was one named In den Grooten Moriaen.

Stad Wervik