About this place
Rouen, also called the city of the hundred steeples, is the city in which Joan of Arc was condemned and burnt at the stake. A church bears her name, the church of Saint Joan of Arc. It is located on the Place du Vieux Marche, where her stake was erected. The cathedral of Our Lady of Rouen is the most prestigious monument of the city, with a steel spire rising to 151 metres, the highest in France. The Gros Horloge is an arch dating from the Renaissance, straddling one of the busiest pedestrian streets of Rouen. It has a 14th-century astronomical clock.
Rouen City Guide