Rouen

Famous for being the place where Joan of Arc was tried and burned. Full of quaint streets loaded with half-timbered houses. And, of course, the Cathedral painted many times by Monet, plus a good number of other churches and stone  buildings built in a highly decorated, wedding cake style, called Gothic Flamboyant. They are impressive. Plus a few special treats - the museum of art, a ceramic museum, a Sunday morning food market to enliven an otherwise quiet day when everything is closed and ... something I've only heard used as a descriptive term for a place of extreme horror - a real, old charnel house!

The main cathedral

Another church, St. Maclou.  This gives you an idea of the delicacy of the stone work.

Side main cathedral

Entrance

Window main cathedral, four segment crucifixion

Interior main cathedral

Side view

Ceiling

Market Mushrooms

Market Heirloom Tomatoes

Gros-Horloge, The Big Clock, symbol of the town

One hand tells the time. Also supposedly tells phases of the moon in the center and sequence of the weeks in the panel inset.

Very nice glass/crystal thing (one of two) outside Ceramic Museum

One of the few modern works in the Ceramics museum, 2005, I think.

Interior yard of CHARNEL HOUSE! - same structure on all four sides. During plague periods bodies were buried with lime in the center, after decomposition, bones were stored on second floor.

Appropriate decorative motif

Digging tools, skull and bones

Napoleon Was Here!

Interior of Musee des Beaux-Arts

A rare example of graffiti on a half-timbered house.