| St. Pierre's Church was constructed from the 13th to 16th centuries. |
| The interior of St. Pierre consists of one long, narrow nave. |
| The ramparts of Chateau de Caen a fortress built by William the Conqueror in 1060 AD. |
| Eglise St. Pierre as viewed from the Castle. The steeple was destroyed in 1944 and recently rebuilt. |
| Porte sur le Ville, the gatehouse of the Castle. |
| A tram moves down Rue St. Jean past Eglise St. Pierre. |
| The ruins of the Keep of the castle. Laid out in classic square Norman design. |
| The western ramparts of the Chateau de Caen along Rue St. Jean. |
| A full-size model of a Typhoon ground support aircraft at the Caen Memorial Museum. |
| A Sherman tank and a Russian Katyusha rocket launcher down a deep well in the disappointing Museum. |
| A MiG-21 in a weird silo shaped chamber in the Museum. One of the most prolific aircraft of the Cold War. |
| A 1 megaton Mark 28 Nuclear bomb of the type carried by B-52s in the Cold War. |
| Open air market on Marshall LeClerc boulevard. |
| The Orne Canal. |
| St. Jean Church built between the 14th and 16th centuries. |
| The peculiar gothic architecture of Eglise St. Jean. It was the only building to survive WWII in this neighbourhood of Caen. |
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| Gatehouse in the rampart walls of the Castle. |
| A panorama of the ramparts of Chateau de Caen. It was a Royal residence until the reign of Richard the Lion-hearted. It served various military functions up to the end of WWII. The Germans garrisoned the Castle in the War. |
| The tower of Eglise St. Jean leans to the left because the Church was built on marshland. |
| A Joan of Arc statue in Caen with the date 1964 on it for some reason. |
