WALKING TOURS HERITAGE • SHOPPING • RESTAURANTS Centre de Congrès Convention Center MAIN MAP CROIX-ROUSSE BROTTEAUX SHOPPING ZONE SHOPPING ZONE OLD LYON PART-DIEU SHOPPING ZONE Halle de Lyon Paul Bocuse Centre Commercial Part-Dieu The Presqu’île disTRICT RHÔNE SAÔNE CONFLUENCE RESTAURANTS / BARS SHOPPING ZONE Pôle de SHOPPING ZONE Commerces et de loisirs SHOPPING ZONES E N Ô A S E N Ô H R 5 Rue St-Jean OLD A s the main thoroughfare in Old Lyon, Rue LYON St-Jean is simply perfect for a relaxing stroll. With its authentic restaurants and shops, Welcome to Renaissance Lyon. With you can soak up the unique atmosphere of its cobbled streets and its buildings the old town as you explore its Renaissance dating from the 15th and 16th centu- buildings. Passerelle re Scize ries, take the time to enjoy a journey Quai Pier St-Vincent 6 Place du Change back in time and discover the city’s Rue St-Paul O nce the economic heart of the city, Place golden age. Prepare to be surprised by du Change stands as a reminder of the Pont Place RHÔNE its unusual architecture as you explore Q t de la Feuillée u a importance of Lyon’s major fairs held here S -Paul i S t- its courtyards and traboules. A from the 15th century onwards. These n 7 to i Q n u e international fairs attracted many foreign R. Lainerie Rue F. Vernay a i Rue Juiverie d e B traders to the city, who settled in Lyon o n d y permanently. Today a protestant church, the Rue de Montauban 6 1 The Cathedral of St-Jean and the Loge du Change was once used as a currency Manécanterie (choir school) exchange. 8 Place du Change Although work began in 1180, the SAÔNE 7 Rue Juiverie Montée St-Barthélémy construction of the cathedral of St-Jean took Formerly the street of the city’s Jewish 300 years. A gothic styled building, it was Pont merchants, Rue Juiverie is today home to 5 AlphonseJuin damaged in 1562 during the religious wars artists, craftsmen and designers. The interior 9 and hosted the wedding of King Henry IV and Rue du Boeuf courtyards of its magnificent Renaissance R Rue 3 Maries u e 10 Marie de Medici in 1600. de d buildings often feature remarkable decorative la n a B Rue Saint-Jean 4 l om 3 l Situated to the right of the cathedral, the b o a R schemes and carved galleries. rd e n i Passerelle 11th century Manécanterie building was once a m du Palais 2 o R de Justice i 8 The Gadagne museum a home to the St-Jean Choir School. u A s Lyon’s largest Renaissance building, the Place Q St-Jean 2 The archaeological gardens Rue Tramassac Gadagne Museum owes its name to the The ruins of the former churches of 1 s wealthy family of Florentine bankers who n ti 11 s le St-Etienne and Ste-Croix bear witness to é acquired it in the 16th century. It is today C VIEUX s e Montée St-Barthélémy d the scale of this site in the Middle Ages. Montée du Chemin Neuf i a home to Lyon’s history museum and the LYON u Pass. Q Previously connected to the cathedral, to puppet museum. Its café situated in the Bonaparte your right the church of St-Etienne houses a R. Belièvre hanging gardens on the hillside offers an n lo il Rue Lavarenne former fourth century baptistery. u amazing view over the rooftops of Old Lyon. rg ou G du e 3 té Musée de la miniature (the Museum of 9 The Tour Rose (16 Rue du Bœuf) n Mo Place Miniatures): Place de la Basoche A t no. 16 Rue du Bœuf, the inner courtyard Benoît Crepu Rue de l’Antiquaille Place With their Renaissance galleries visible from s of the Tour Rose features an impressive e g Bellecour r es o pi e Quai Tilsitt the street, these buildings provide a reminder É G staircase inside a tower. On the other side of e t - S té M e St-GeorgesPass. that the Old Lyon district was almost partially u the courtyard, the hanging gardens overlook R demolished in the 1960s, being considered Fourvière hill. Quai Fulchiron unsanitary at the time. After being declared 10 The Grande Traboule (27 Rue du Bœuf) a protected area in 1964, it was subsequently renovated. Part of the building today houses The word “traboule” comes from the Latin the Museum of Miniatures and Cinema. expression “trans ambulare”, which means “passing through”. These passageways 4 The Law Courts through the buildings are today one of Built by the architect Louis-Pierre Baltard Lyon’s most emblematic symbols. Built between 1835 and 1847, Lyon’s historical as shortcuts, they were also used by the law court is nicknamed the “24 columns” by resistance fighters during the Second World the people of Lyon. In 1987 the trial of Klaus War. This traboule is the longest in the Barbie, the former head of Lyon’s Gestapo, district as it runs through the courtyards of RESTAURANTS / BARS was held here. four buildings. RHÔNE SAÔNE E N Ô A S E N Ô H R CROIX- 5 Rue Burdeau: art galleries ROUSSE R ightly famous for its art galleries, Rue Burdeau proposes a fascinating selection e Clackety-clack, clackety-clack, clac- of works and artists from the contemporary s s u o Rue du Chariot d’Or R kety-clack… Today the Croix-Rousse scene. Whether you are simply curious or an - x Rue de Cuire i o Boulevard des Canuts r C enthusiastic collector, a lover of paintings, district still echoes to the sound of a Rue d’Ivry l e d the weaving looms which made the sculptures or drawings, a visit to the galleries e u Rue Denfert-Rochereau r e is a “must”! d city so famous in the 19th century. As n a r you make your way down the hill, take Rue Couturier G Place 6 Passage Thiaffait: the designers’ village de la R. du pavillon a stroll through the “canuts” district. L yon has retained a significant heritage from Croix-Rousse Rue Justin Godart The word “Canut” is the name for a its past as a textiles centre, particularly in CROIX silk worker. the fashion field. Created in 2001, the Village Rue Perrod ROUSSE Gros Rue d’Isly Caillou 1 des Créateurs (Designers’ Village) provides Rue Aimé Boussange Place Place assistance for emerging young talent in the Tabareau Bellevue fashion and design fields. The designers ousse Boulevard de la Croix-R 1 Le Gros Caillou (The “big rock”) found in Passage Thiaffait are residents Jardin de la Rue Audran Rue Vaucanson Grande Côte -Sébastien D iscovered in 1861 during the digging of the for a period of 23 months to give them an t route for the funicular railway connecting the opportunity to open their first shop. 2 Rue de l’Alma Montée S Presqu’île district to La Croix-Rousse, this Place 7 The church of St Polycarpe Montée Colbert block of stone was deposited here by the ice Lieutenant This 17th century church whose façade 3 from the Alps during the great glaciations. It Allouche Rue Lemot was completed in 1756 by Loyer is the only Rue du Bon Pasteur M o n t is today one of the district’s most distinctive Rue Diderot é church on the hill still in use today. On its e S t M - symbols. o S n éb façade, we can still see the marks from the té a e Rue Imbert-Colomès st d ie e Montée de la Grande Côte n s 2 cannonballs fired by the Convention during C The view from the Esplanade a Rue Royale rm é the siege of Lyon in 1793. lit 4 de la Grande Côte es Jardin 5 As the oldest thoroughfare on the hillside, des 8 La Condition des Soies Plantes Rue Burdeau 7 making it possible to reach the Terreaux (the Silk Conditioning Centre) 6 district, the street known as the Montée de Built in 1814 this building played a central Rue René Leynaud la Grande Côte is flanked by Renaissance role in the district’s textile industry until the 8 buildings. From the esplanade, Fourvière Second World War. Its purpose was to check Place hill and Old Lyon can be admired from a 9 Sathonay the humidity level of the silk and the quality Rue Romarin new angle. Rue Sergent Blandan Place of the materials produced. In the mid-19th 10 Louis Pradel century more than 30,000 weavers were Rue de la Martinière 3 La Cour des Voraces based in the city, making the silk trade Lyon’s This is the best known traboule in the Quai St-Vincent main source of income. Place district, thanks to its monumental staircase. des Terreaux An area profoundly marked by the workers’ 9 Rue Sergent Blandan: designers’ shops revolts of the 19th century, it doubtless owes A district synonymous with second hand its name to a group of revolutionary silk clothes and design, at the foot of La Croix- RHÔNE workers who met here in secret. Rousse hill shoppers looking for antique and retro items or unique designer goods will find 4 L’Amphithéâtre des 3 Gaules a wealth of highly original stores! (Amphitheatre of the Three Gauls) As a meeting place for the representatives 10 The fresco of famous Lyonnais from the provinces of Gaul in Roman times, Produced in 1998 by the Cité de la Création, this amphitheatre was also the place of this trompe l’œil fresco pays tribute to 30 martyrdom of Lyon’s first Christians in 177.