Rouen is a city in France, capital of Seine-Maritime department and the Haute-Normandie region.

One of the most important historical cities of Normandy, Rouen remained in history mainly because of Joan of Arc, but also because stories about this place. Capital Norse warriors who came here on the river Seine in the ninth century, the city grew rapidly in the following centuries, and in the Middle Ages was one of the most powerful and feared Norman fortress. It was one of the capitals of the Anglo-Norman dynasty, who led both England and much of modern France from the eleventh century and the fourteenth century.