Going to Rouen feels like having discovered time travel. Rouen belongs to France’s best-preserved historic cities and it’ll be like stepping into a medieval film set. Can you imagine that France’s oldest restaurant is here, and that it dates back to 1345? Rouen has more than 3000 historic houses, some of them nearly a thousand years old. The city center is entirely pedestrian and it’s a joy to get lost in its windy, cobbled streets.