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Rouen has preserved its historic centre, now composed of .
As you walk along Rouen’s streets, past half timbered houses, you will discover the many treasures the town has to offer :
The Cathedral, the Gros-Horloge, the Law Courts, the Aître and St.Maclou’s Church and St.Ouen’s Abbey amongst others. You can remember the memory of Joan of Arc at the place du Vieux Marché, where the young shepherdess was burnt on the stake. www.visite-de-rouen.com will give you a good preview.
You can also visit the city’s museums: the Fine Arts Museum, Rouen’s Le Secq des Tournelles ironworks museum, unmatched anywhere in the world and the Ceramics Museum reminds you that Rouen is also renowned for the faience.
From June to September 2010, the exhibition “A city of impressionists, Monet, Pissaro, Gaugin in Rouen” in the Fine Arts Museum, will include an exceptional gathering of masterpieces from worldwide public and private collections.
(www.normandieimpressionniste.com).
The renovated banks of the Seine to the new drawbridge “Gustave Flaubert” offer a very enjoyable walk.
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