Rouen Cathedral is a Catholic church in Rouen, Normandy, France. It is the see of the Archbishop of Rouen, Primate of Normandy. It is famous for its three towers, each in a different style. The cathedral, built and rebuilt over a period of more than eight hundred years, has features from Early Gothic to late Flamboyant and Renaissance architecture. It also has a place in art history as the subject of a series of impressionist paintings by Claude Monet, and in architecture history as from 1876 to 1880, it was the tallest building in the world.
Rouen Cathedral
The west front as it may have appeared in the 12th century, according to Jean-Baptiste Foucher in 1906.
Cardinal Georges d'Amboise following Louis XII of France (1503)
Rouen and the Cathedral in 1525, from the "Livre des Fontaines" by Jacques Le Lieur.
Rouen is a city on the River Seine in northern France. It is the prefecture of the region of Normandy and the department of Seine-Maritime. Formerly one of the largest and most prosperous cities of medieval Europe, the population of the metropolitan area is 702,945 (2018). People from Rouen are known as Rouennais.
Left to right: St Ouen, Notre Dame, St Maclou
Gros-Horloge
The tramway
King Edward IV