Classified
among the first backed up sectors of France, the hurdy-gurdy city
covers 60 hectares, staging Cathedral to banks of the Eure. Very close
to the Cathedral, on the place of the Fish shop, draws up one of the
most beautiful houses chartraines, the house of Salmon also said the
house of the Sow-which-file, built at the beginning of XVIème century
and equipped with woodcarvings. Downwards, bordered of half-timbered
houses of which one is flanked staircase of the Berthe Queen, is paved
and lit by lanterns suspended with chains, the street of the Riders
replongent the walker at the time medieval. Uneven bridges,
laundrettes, water mills rythment a pedestrian advance arranged along
banks of the Eure; it makes it possible to profit from exceptional
points of view on the high city. Partly pedestrian, animated by its
trade and its markets, the hurdy-gurdy city preserved the alive and
picturesque charm of its past of old medieval city. |