Azay le Rideau → Orléans
1 connection via St-Pierre-des-Corps · 1 hr 39
Ten nave windows in Sainte-Croix Cathedral trace Joan of Arc’s life, and she came here to pray in 1429.
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1 connection via St-Pierre-des-Corps · 1 hr 39
Ten nave windows in Sainte-Croix Cathedral trace Joan of Arc’s life, and she came here to pray in 1429.
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The Sainte-Croix Cathedral combines Gothic construction with later rebuilding; ten nave windows depict episodes from Joan of Arc’s life. She came to pray there on 8 May 1429, during the campaign that lifted the English siege. The Loire riverfront lies just beyond the historic centre.
The Maison de Jeanne d’Arc recreates the timber-framed home where Jacques Boucher hosted Joan during the 1429 siege. Nearby, the red-brick Hôtel Groslot, built in the sixteenth century, later served as the town hall and stands beside the cathedral.