Rouen entdecken

The Aître Saint-Maclou is a former cemetery of the Saint-Maclou parish, created after the Black Death of 1348. Its courtyard is enclosed by timber-framed galleries built from 1526 to hold exhumed bones, their beams carved with skulls, bones and gravediggers' tools. From 1661 to 2014 the buildings housed schools, lastly the city's school of fine arts.

The Gros Horloge is an astronomical clock in Rouen whose movement dates from 1389, set since 1529 in a Renaissance arch spanning the Rue du Gros-Horloge. Its gilded dial shows the hour with a single hand, the phases of the moon and the day of the week. A visit leads through the dial room and the Gothic belfry to a view over the city.