Joan of Arc's Execution City: Monet's Cathedral, 2,000 Half-Timbered Houses & Étretat Cliffs
📍 Rouen, France📅 3-day itinerary
The Norman capital where a 19-year-old girl was burned alive in 1431 and the same square now has a flame-shaped church incorporating 16th-century stained glass, where Monet painted the same Gothic façade 30 times from an apartment window across the street, and 2,000 medieval half-timbered houses line streets unchanged since the Wars of the Roses.
The Gothic Cathedral Monet Painted 30 Times in 2 Years as Light Changed, the Plague Cemetery Where Dance-of-Death Skull Carvings Decorate a School Courtyard & Richard the Lionheart's Heart Buried Under the Nave
The 60-Metre Natural Chalk Arch Where Monet and Arsène Lupin Both Left Their Mark & 9,387 White Crosses on the Cliff Above the Beach Where Americans Landed on June 6, 1944
The Exact Japanese Bridge Where Monet's 250 Water Lily Paintings Were Born & Victor Hugo's Most Beautiful Ruins in France: 43-Metre Roofless Romanesque Towers