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Country FRANCE ROUEN (regional info) > Tourism & Travel Guide: Rouen BOOK HOTEL RESERVATIONS ONLINE OR BY LIVE TELEPHONE SUPPORT 24/7 US and Canada: 1-800-780-5733 Europe: 00-800-11-20-11-40 Use reference code: 361882 Cash Back Booking Incentives Room Sales and Hot Deals Special Internet Rate Price Guarantee BEST WESTERN HTL DU VIEUX MARC Rouen BW HOTEL DE DIEPPE Rouen Coeur de City Hotel Rouen Cathedrale Rouen COMFORT HOTEL ROUEN ALBA Rouen D Angleterre Hotel Rouen Ermitage Bouquet Rouen Hotel Astrid Rouen Hotel Kyriad Rouen Centre Rouen Hotel Le Morand Rouen Hotel Rouen Saint Sever Rouen Hotel Versan Rouen Ibis Rouen Centre Rive Droite Rouen Ibis Rouen Centre Rive Gauche Saint Sever Rouen Ibis Rouen Champ de Mars Rouen Mercure Rouen Centre Cathedrale Rouen Mercure Rouen Champ Mars Rouen Suite Novotel Rouen Normandie Rouen Mairie de Rouen Tourism & Travel Guide: Rouen Rouen Regional Directory Google Images: Rouen Google Video: Rouen Google Map: Rouen Wikipedia: Rouen Customer Service & Support Airline Tickets Group Hotel Bookings Travel Weblog and Live Chat Travel Forum Rouen is the historical capital city of Normandy, in northwestern France on the River Seine, and currently the capital of the Haute-Normandie (Upper Normandy) région. Once one of the largest and most prosperous cities of medieval Europe, Rouen was the seat of the Exchequer of Normandy in the Middle Ages. It was one of the capitals of the Anglo-Norman dynasties, which ruled both England and large parts of modern France from the 11th century to the 15th century. People from Rouen are called Rouennais. The population of the metropolitan area (in French: aire urbaine) at the 1999 census was 518,316 inhabitants and 541,410 inhabitants at the 2007 estimate. The city proper has an estimated population of 109,000 in 2007. read full wikipedia reference about Rouen, France " Arrival And Information " Dining And Drinking " Entertainment " Explore Rouen ROUEN , the capital of Upper Normandy, is one of France's most ancient and historic cities. Standing on the site of Roman Rotomagus, the lowest point on the river then capable of being bridged, it was laid out by the Viking Rollo shortly after he became Duke of Normandy in 911. Captured by the English in 1419, it was the stage in 1431 for the trial and execution of Joan of Arc, and returned to French control in 1449. Over the centuries, Rouen has suffered repeated devastation; there were 45 major fires in the first half of the thirteenth century alone. It has had to be almost entirely rebuilt during the last fifty years, and now you could spend a whole day wandering around the city without realizing that the Seine ran through its centre. War-time bombs destroyed all its bridges, the area between the cathedral and the quais , and much of the industrial quarter. The riverside area has never been adequately restored, and what you might expect to be the most beautiful part of the city is in fact something of an abomination. Enormous sums have, however, been lavished on an upmarket restoration job on the streets a few hundred metres north of the river, which turned the centre into the closest approximation to a medieval city that modern imaginations could come up with. The suggestion that for historical authenticity the houses should be painted in bright, clashing colours was not deemed appropriate, but so far as it goes, the whole of this inner core can be very seductive, and its churches are impressive by any standards. Outside the renovated quarters, things are rather different. The city spreads deep into the loop of the Seine, with its docks and industrial infrastructure stretching endlessly away to the south, and it's increasingly expanding up into the hills to the north as well, while the river bank itself is lined with a fume-filled, multi-laned motorway. As the nearest point that large container ships can get to Paris, even in decline this remains the fourth largest port in the country OTHER POPULAR DESTINATIONS IN FRANCE Abbeville Aix En Provence Ajaccio Albi Amiens Angers Annecy Antibes Juan Les Pins Arles Avignon Bandol Bayeux Bayonne Beaulieu Sur Mer Beaune Besancon Biarritz Blois Bordeaux Boulogne Bourges Brest Caen Cagnes Calais Calvi Cannes Carcassone Carnac Chalon sur Saone Chambery Chamonix Chartres Cherbourg Clermont Ferrand Colmar Courbevoie Deauville Dieppe Dijon Dinard Evian Futuroscope Gordes Grasse Grenoble Honfleur Hyeres Juan Les Pins La Baule La Rochelle Le Havre Le Mans Le Mont St. Michel Le Touquet Les Sables d'Orlonne Lille Limoges Lorient Lourdes Lyon Macon Malo Marseille Menton Merignac Metz Montpellier Mulhouse Nancy Nantes Nice Nimes Orleans Paris Paris A - Paris C Paris D - Paris J Paris K - Paris Y Pau Perigueux Perpignan Poitiers Quimper Reims Rennes Roissy Rouen Strasbourg Toulon Toulouse Tours Troyes Valence Vannes Versailles Vichy

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