Le Gros-Horloge

The Gros-Horloge is an astronomical clock dating back to the fourteenth century, and the arch it sits in was built in 1527. The clock is located in Rouen in Normandy. The name Gros-Horloge means Great Clock. The clock was electrified in the 1920s and still looks proudly over the street below.

Image: “Le Gros-Horloge” by Sigurd Curman (1908). From the Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology