Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #2 in Rouen, France

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Number of sights 18 sights
Distance 4.5 km
Ascend 90 m
Descend 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 Rouen

Sight 1: Centre de ressources du Munaé

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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.

Wikipedia: Musée national de l'Éducation (FR), Website

384 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 2: Théâtre des Deux Rives

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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.

Wikipedia: Théâtre des 2 Rives (FR), Website

197 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 3: Muséum d'histoire naturelle

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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

336 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 4: Chapelle Saint-Louis

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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.

Wikipedia: Prieuré Saint-Louis-de-la-Rougemare (FR)

148 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 5: Chapelle Corneille

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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.

Wikipedia: Saint-Louis Church, Rouen (EN)

209 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 6: Statue de Napoléon

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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.

Wikipedia: Statue de Napoléon (Rouen) (FR)

386 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 7: Musée Le Secq des Tournelles

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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.

Wikipedia: Musée Le Secq des Tournelles (FR), Website

108 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 8: Église Saint-Godard

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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.

Wikipedia: Église Saint-Godard de Rouen (FR)

162 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 9: Musée des Beaux-Arts

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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.

Wikipedia: Musée des beaux-arts de Rouen (FR), Website

134 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 10: Musée de la Céramique

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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.

Wikipedia: Rouen Ceramic Museum (EN), Website

201 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 11: Tour Jeanne d'Arc

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Tour Jeanne d'Arc CJW / Attribution

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.

Wikipedia: Rouen Castle (EN)

320 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 12: Église Saint-Patrice

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Église Saint-PatriceEdhral from Saint-Mandé, France / CC BY-SA 2.0

Saint-Patrice Church is a Roman Catholic church in Rouen, France.

Wikipedia: Église Saint-Patrice de Rouen (FR)

224 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 13: Hôtel de Sacy

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Hôtel de SacyEdhral from Saint-Mandé, France / CC BY-SA 2.0

The Hôtel de Sacy is a private mansion located in Rouen, France.

Wikipedia: Hôtel de Sacy (FR)

153 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 14: Synagogue

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The Synagogue of Rouen is a consistorial synagogue of the Sephardic rite, located at 55 rue des Bons-Enfants in Rouen.

Wikipedia: Synagogue de Rouen (FR)

252 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 15: Jeanne au bûcher

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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.

Wikipedia: Jeanne au bûcher (statue) (FR)

113 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 16: Maison natale Pierre Corneille

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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.

Wikipedia: Musée Pierre-Corneille (Rouen) (FR), Website

537 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 17: Musée Flaubert - Histoire de la Médecine

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Musée Flaubert - Histoire de la Médecine François Leclercq / CC BY-SA 3.0

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

671 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 18: Église Saint-Gervais

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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.

Wikipedia: Église Saint-Gervais de Rouen (FR)

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