Ruán or Ruan (in Rouen French) is a city of the northwest of France, capital of the region of Normandía Discharge (in Haute-Normandie French) and of the Seine-Maritime department. The city is crossed by the Seine and three of its small affluents, the Aubette, the Robec and the Cailly.
Victor Hugo baptized it with the sobrename of “the city of the one hundred bell towers”. Many of their edificos were damaged as a result of the bombings that the city underwent during World War II, to per luckyly follow still on some buildings remarkable, or are religious or no.
The Abbey of Saint-Ouen is particularly impressive with its 130 ms of height. It is of flaming gothic style. By their size and impressive bearing, many visitors confuse it with the cathedral.
100px|thumbnail|Catedral of Notre-Dame de Rouen.
The Cathedral of Notre-Dame of Rouen, gothic architecture, source of inspiration of Claude Monet painter. In the cruise of transepto it has a “tower lantern” crowned by a fused iron arrow whose end reaches the 151 ms of height (she is highest of France). The western facade is fitted between two towers, the one of Saint-Romain and the Tour de Beurre (Tower of Mantequilla) built with the money of the indulgences of cuaresma. It is a gothic masterpiece of the flaming one.