Things to do in Rouen
Around Rouen, Notrebellefrance lists 15 tourist sites within 25 km, including 5 museums, 3 castles, 2 religious sites and 2 zoos and wildlife parks. Not to be missed: Rouen, Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Rouen and Historial Jeanne d'Arc.
Rouen
Historic capital of Normandy where Joan of Arc was burned, whose Renaissance Gros-Horloge still overlooks a half-timbered shopping street.
Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Rouen
The primatial cathedral of Notre-Dame de l'Assomption in Rouen is the town's most prestigious monument.
Historial Jeanne d'Arc
Discover a visit of a new kind. Through a spectacular and innovative staging, take part in a real judicial investigation to discover the fate of Joan of Arc.
Musée des beaux-arts de Rouen
The Fine Arts Museum brings together one of the most prestigious collections in France.
Musée Départemental des antiquités
Jardin des Plantes de Rouen
Musée Industriel de la Corderie Vallois
Abbaye St Georges de boscherville
A twelfth-century Benedictine abbey and its 4-ha monastic garden among the most beautiful in northern France, 10 km west of Rouen.
Manoir de Villers
Musée des Traditions et Arts Normands
Parc Zoologique de Cleres
The Clères zoological park is a French zoological and botanical park, part of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle and run by the Seine-Maritime Département.
Biotropica
Parc du Bocasse
A Norman leisure park opened in 1967 north of Rouen, known for its mascot bees, its roller coasters including Orochi and its family attractions.
Abbaye de Jumièges
The abbey of Saint-Pierre de Jumièges (Seine-Maritime) was founded by Saint Philibert, son of a Frankish count of Gascony, around 654 on a royal treasury estate at Jumièges. Jumièges abbey became State property again in 1947, then property of the Seine-Maritime département in 2007 as part of…
