Caen - St Jean District

In Caen, south of Place St-Pierre is the St-Jean district, rebuilt after wartime destruction, with the church of St- Jean (14th-15th century; badly damaged in 1944 but since restored) and the broad Avenue du 6-Juin (D-day 1944), which runs south over the Orne to the railroad station.

Some 1,500 m/1,600yd south of the station is the Château d'Eau de la Guérinière (by G. Gillet, 1957), a water-tower in the shape of a top.

Rue St-Pierre, the main street of the old town, runs southwest from Place St-Pierre. 200 m/220yd along this street, on the right, are two handsome half-timbered houses (Nos. 52 and 54). Farther along, also on the right, is the church of St- Sauveur (14th-15th century), with a beautiful tower and a richly decorated apse of 1546. Rue St-Pierre continues past the church through a part of the town which escaped destruction during the last war and ends in Place Malherbe. A little way south is the Jesuit church of Notre-Dame de la Gloriette (1684).