Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #2 in Rouen, France
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4.5 km
83 m
Explore Rouen in France with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.
Activities in RouenIndividual Sights in RouenSight 1: Centre de ressources du Munaé
The National Museum of Education (Munaé) is a French museum located in Rouen; It is among the most famous museum establishments in the "city with a hundred bell towers". It is a canopé network service. He has the Musée de France label.
Sight 2: Théâtre des Deux Rives
The Théâtre des Deux Rives is a theatre with a capacity of 208 spectators. It is located at 48 rue Louis-Ricard, in Rouen, Normandy.
Sight 3: Muséum d'histoire naturelle
The Rouen Museum was founded in 1828 by Adrien Charles Deshommets de Martainville, mayor of Rouen. He occupied the convent of Sainte-Marie in Rouen, France. It holds the label Musée de France. It has been part of the Rouen Normandy Metropolitan Museums Meeting since 1 January 2016.
Wikipedia: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Rouen (FR), Website
Sight 4: Chapelle Saint-Louis
The former priory of Saint-Louis-de-la-Rougemare, located on the Place de la Rougemare in Rouen, is now home to the theatre of the Saint-Louis chapel. The former Saint-Louis chapel has been listed as a historical monument since 16 September 1957.
Sight 5: Chapelle Corneille
Saint-Louis Church, often referred as Lycée Corneille's Chapel, was a Roman Catholic church in Rouen, Normandy, France. The building was formerly the chapel of the nearby Lycée Corneille. In 2016, it was turned into an auditorium.
Sight 6: Statue de Napoléon
The monument to Napoleon I is a bronze equestrian statue of the Vital Sculptor Gabriel Dubray located at Place du Général-de-Gaulle in Rouen.
Sight 7: Musée Le Secq des Tournelles
The Musée Le Secq des Tournelles is a museum of ironwork located in a former disused church in Rouen. The building is located in the Vieux-Marché - Cathédrale district, in the immediate vicinity of the Saint-Godard church and the Museum of Fine Arts.
Sight 8: Église Saint-Godard
The Church of Saint-Godard is a Catholic place of worship in the city center of Rouen, in the Vieux-Marché / Cathédrale district, located near the Musée Le Secq des Tournelles and the Musée des Beaux-Arts.
Sight 9: Musée des Beaux-Arts
The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen is a museum located in the city centre of Rouen, Normandy. It is one of the richest museums of its kind in the provinces.
Sight 10: Musée de la Céramique
The Rouen Ceramic Museum is a museum located in the hôtel d'Hocqueville in the French city of Rouen. It has the title Museum of France. It was established in 1864, and contains a collection of around 5000 pieces.
Sight 11: Tour Jeanne d'Arc
Rouen Castle was a fortified ducal and royal residence in the city of Rouen, capital of the duchy of Normandy, now in France. With the exception of the tower wrongly associated with Joan of Arc, which was restored by Viollet-le-Duc, the castle was destroyed at the end of the 16th century, its stones quarried for other construction.
Sight 12: Église Saint-Patrice
Saint-Patrice Church is a Roman Catholic church in Rouen, France.
Sight 13: Hôtel de Sacy
The Hôtel de Sacy is a private mansion located in Rouen, France.
Sight 14: Synagogue
The Synagogue of Rouen is a consistorial synagogue of the Sephardic rite, located at 55 rue des Bons-Enfants in Rouen.
Sight 15: Jeanne au bûcher
Joan at the Stake, known as the statue of Joan at the Stake, is a stone statue of Joan of Arc, sculpted by Maxime Real del Sarte with the collaboration of Roger de Villiers in 1927 and erected in Rouen, Place du Vieux-Marché, outside the church of Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc.
Sight 16: Maison natale Pierre Corneille
The Pierre-Corneille Museum is a museum dedicated to the writer Pierre Corneille, located in his birthplace in Rouen, near the Place du Vieux-Marché. Pierre Corneille, who was born there on June 6, 1606, lived there for 56 years, writing his plays including Le Cid, before selling this family home in 1683.
Sight 17: Musée Flaubert - Histoire de la Médecine
The Musée Flaubert et d'Histoire de la médecine is a museum in Rouen that occupies the birthplace of Gustave Flaubert, in the former Hôtel-Dieu. It has the label Musée de France and the label Maisons des Illustres. The Hôtel-Dieu has been listed as a historical monument since 11 March 1932.
Wikipedia: Musée Flaubert et d'histoire de la médecine (FR), Website
Sight 18: Église Saint-Gervais
The church of Saint-Gervais, located on Place Saint-Gervais and Rue Claude-Groulard in Rouen, was built between 1868 and 1874 by the architect Martin Pierre. The current church, in neo-Romanesque style, with ribbed vaults, succeeds a priory dependent on the Abbey of the Trinity of Fécamp, originally built outside the walls. The crypt of the church, dating from the early Middle Ages, is listed as a historical monument.
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