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Aître St-Maclou, detail
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Église Jeanne d'Arc
Other Sights in Rouen
Musée des Beaux-Arts
Highlights include paintings
by Caravaggio, Velásquez,
Monet, Dufy and Modigliani.
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espl Marcel Duchamp
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Map M5
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Open
10am-6pm Wed-Mon
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Adm charge
Palais de Justice
A magnificent example of
late-medieval architecture, despite
a 19th-century wing.
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36 rue aux
Juifs
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Map M5
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Closed to the public
Église Jeanne d'Arc
The cross outside this striking
modern church marks the site of
Joan's martyrdom.
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pl du Vieux
Marché
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Map L5
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Open 10am-12:15pm,
2-6pm Mon-Thu, Sat, 2-6pm Fri, Sun
Aître St-Maclou
This tranquil 14th-century
courtyard was a plague cemetery.
The timbered galleries are decor-
ated with
memento mori
.
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186 rue Martainville (at end of passage)
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Map N6
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Open 9am-6pm daily
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Free
Musée National de
l'Éducation
Charts 500 years of children's
education.
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185 rue Eau-de-Robec
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Map N5
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Open 10am-12:30pm,
1:30-6pm Mon, Wed-Fri, 2-6pm Sat-Sun
and school hols
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Adm charge
Église St-Maclou
A masterpiece of Flamboyant
Gothic.
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Map N6
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Open 10am-5pm
Mon-Sat, 3-5:30pm Sun
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Free
Gros Horloge
Moved from the Gothic belfry
to a purpose-built arch in 1527, the
Great Clock has two identical dials,
a single hour hand and a panel
showing the phases of the moon.
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191 rue du Gros Horloge
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Map L5
Abbatiale St-Ouen
The Cavaillé-Coll organ at
this Flamboyant abbey is world-
famous.
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rue des Faulx
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Map N5
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Open mid-Jan-mid-Mar, Nov-mid-Dec:
10am-12:30pm, 2-4:30pm Tue, Sat-Sun;
mid-Mar-Oct: 10am-12:15pm, 2-6pm
Wed-Mon
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Free
Musée Le Secq des
Tournelles
The world's largest collection of
historic wrought-ironware.
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2 rue
Jacques Villon
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Map M5
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Open 10am-
1pm, 2-6pm Wed-Mon
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Adm charge
Musée de la Céramique
Charts the evolution of
Rouen's earthenware.
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Hotel
d'Hôcqueville, 1 rue Faucon
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Map M4
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Open 10am-1pm, 2-6pm Wed-Mon
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Adm charge
Gros Horloge
For Rouen's wonderful Jardin des Plantes
See p44
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