Our private Rouen tour focuses on the charming Old Town area, with its nearly 20 city blocks of medieval half-timbered buildings dating from the 14th through the 17th centuries, which border on one of the most famous cathedrals in the world, and the equally renowned Great Clock (Gros Horloge). Here we will show you the remains of the chapel where Joan of Arc was tried and the square where she was burned at the stake. We will also visit inside and outside the Notre Dame de Rouen Cathedral. Inside we will see the tombs of Richard the Lion Heart and William Long Sword, also known as the Conqueror. Outside we will view the portal that so mesmerized Claude Monet that he felt compelled to paint it nearly thirty times.

Walking through Rouen’s quaint cobbled streets, you will see that this is also a place of great French names in literature, music and art. History and culture ooze from the buildings, and you can almost picture Emma Bovary emerging from one of them. Passing the flamboyant Gothic Saint Maclou parish church, we will also visit the dramatic charnel house of the same name, the Aître Saint Maclou, where three quarters of the parish perished in the Great Plague of 1348.