Construction began in 1195, and in 1214 nearly half of the building - a little more than the current choir - was completed.

After an interruption of about ten years, the second construction campaign - structural work of the nave and the western facade - begins in 1225 and will continue until 1230. At this date, the main work is finished.
The North Tower collapsed in 1506 and had to be rebuilt.

Then, the work of the facade was done in slow motion. In 1313, it was necessary to support the south tower, in which cracks had appeared, by implanting a huge "abutting pillar". It has never been possible, because of this fragility, to implant bells, hence its name "turn deaf". Other work of consolidation of the facade was undertaken, and the north tower was still unfinished at the consecration of the cathedral on May 13, 1324 by Archbishop Guillaume de Brosse.

In 1424, the cathedral receives its astronomical clock, built by André Cassart and designed by Jean Fusoris.

The marshes of Bourges, or swamp of the Yèvre and of the Voiselle, constitute in the major bed of the Yèvre river and east of the city center of Bourges, an enclave of 135 ha of former marshes arranged by the humans from the 8th century, and today dedicated to forms of urban agriculture (private gardens or ornamental gardens) and part of some leisure (fishing, jogging, walking, tourism ...)

They are divided into nearly 1,500 parcels, divided between almost as many owners: their areas vary from 13 m2 to 1.5 ha. The marshes are protected by a classification since 2003 under the regime of "natural monuments and sites" governed by the code of the environment1. Two associations, grouping part of the users of the marshes, contribute to their safeguarding and protection, their development, their maintenance and their animation: the Association of market gardeners of Bourges (AMB), and the Association Heritage of the Marshes (also called Association of the users of the Marshes of the Yèvre and of the Voiselle in Bourges, AUMYVB).