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Rouen City Highlights
Medieval spires, Joan of Arc, and Monet's cathedral in one compact old-town loop
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Welcome to Rouen, Normandy's medieval capital on the banks of the Seine, a city of soaring Gothic spires, cobbled lanes, and leaning half-timbered houses. On this gentle old-town loop we follow the footsteps of Joan of Arc, stand before the cathedral that captivated Monet, and discover churches, markets, and hidden courtyards layered with a thousand years of history. Along the way you will hear the stories behind every spire and square, from saints and painters to plague and revolution. Take your time, look up often, and let one of France's most beautiful old towns unfold around you.
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Place du Vieux-Marché
Square
The lively old market square at the heart of Rouen, and the exact place where Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in 1431. A tall cross in the garden marks the spot of her pyre.
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Église Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc
Church
A daring modern church consecrated in 1979, its sweeping roof shaped like an overturned boat and leaping flames, built where Joan of Arc died. Inside glow thirteen panels of rescued sixteenth century stained glass.
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Gros-Horloge
Clock
Rouen's beloved Great Clock, a gilded Renaissance astronomical dial spanning the city's busiest pedestrian street. Its iron movement, built in 1389, is among the oldest in France.
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Palais de Justice
Palace
A dazzling Flamboyant Gothic palace begun in 1499 as the seat of the Parliament of Normandy, and still Rouen's working courthouse. Beneath its courtyard hides the Maison Sublime, the oldest Jewish monument in France.
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Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Rouen
Cathedral
A soaring Gothic cathedral whose west front Claude Monet painted more than thirty times, crowned by a cast iron spire that was once the tallest structure in the world.
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Historial Jeanne d'Arc
Museum
An immersive museum set inside the medieval archbishop's palace, on the very spot where Joan of Arc was tried, condemned, and later cleared of all charges.
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Église Saint-Maclou
Church
A dazzling masterpiece of Flamboyant Gothic, famous for its sweeping five-bay porch and carved Renaissance doors, set among leaning half-timbered houses.
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Aître Saint-Maclou
Ossuary
A haunting medieval plague cemetery and charnel house whose timbered galleries are carved with skulls, crossbones and the tools of the gravedigger. Opened in 1348 to receive victims of the Black Death, it is one of the last surviving cemetery galleries in France.
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Abbatiale Saint-Ouen
Abbey
A vast Gothic abbey church that rivals Rouen's cathedral in sheer scale, celebrated for its luminous nave, its crowning lantern tower, and one of the finest Cavaillé-Coll organs ever built.
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Hôtel de Ville
Town Hall
Rouen's dignified neoclassical city hall, housed in the former dormitories of Saint-Ouen Abbey and fronted by gardens and a bronze equestrian statue of Napoleon.
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