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Orléans was founded as a Gallic civitas (city state) of the Gallic Carnutes tribe, called Cenabum.

It was refounded in 275 by the Roman Emperor Aurelian who gave it his name, Aurelianum, "the city of Aurelianus".

After Joan of Arc's (Jeanne d'Arc) deliverance of the city in 1429 the town feels bound to commemorate.

This was the turning point in the Hundred Years War (1339 -1453), when Paris had been captured by the English and was infested by disease, and Orléans itself, as the key city in central France, was under siege.

Our team can create a special tour on the footsteps of Joan of Arc in the city but there are also many historical building interesting to see (cathedral Sainte-Croix, the medieval rampart, a medieval cemetery created in the XIIth century, the old bishopric...).