Le Gros Horloge
The Gros Horloge is one of the main symbol of Rouen. Apart from its strange
masculine noun, this monument
is noticeable first for its wonderful clock, but also for the rest of the
building that was over the years a belfry and
the town hall The clock mechanism was build in 1389, but the clock became
visible on both sides only in 1527,
when the renaissance arch, that sustains it, was rebuild.
Gros-Horloge and belfry
The rest of the building was erected during the XIVth
century. A fountain was added to the building in 1456, but the current
one was finished in1733
