Gros-Horloge

Today I strolled a bit around in Rouen and was quite impressed. Youcan find some quite old buildings in the old town.

Rouen is a city on the River Seine in northern France. Formerly one of the largest and most prosperous cities of medieval Europe, the population of the metropolitan area is about 700 000 and people from Rouen are known as Rouennais.

Rouen was the seat of the Exchequer of Normandy during the Middle Ages. From the 13th century onwards, the city experienced a remarkable economic boom, thanks in particular to the development of textile factories and river trade. Claimed by both the French and the English during the Hundred Years' War, it was on its soil that Joan of Arc was tried and burned alive on 30 May 1431.

Severely damaged by the wave of bombing in 1944, it nevertheless regained its economic dynamism in the post-war period thanks to its industrial sites and its large seaport, which today is the fifth largest in France.

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