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Photos: Celeda, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 English : This photo has been taken by Matthieu Riegler (User:Kyro) and released under the licenses stated below. You are free to use it for any purpose as long as you credit me as author, Wikimedia Commons as site and follow the terms of the licenses. Could you be kind enough to leave me a message on this page to inform me about your use of this picture. Example: © Matthieu Riegler, CC-BY Français : Cette photo a été prise par Matthieu Riegler (User:Kyro) et placée sous les licences ci-dessous. Vous êtes libre de la réutiliser, pour n'importe quelle utilisation, tant que vous me citez en tant qu'auteur, Wikimedia Commons en tant que site et suivez les instructions des licences. Pourriez-vous avoir l'amabilité de me laisser un message sur cette page pour m'informer de votre utilisation de cette image. Exemple : © Matthieu Riegler, CC-BY This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.Attribution: Matthieu Riegler, CC-by You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work to remix – to adapt the work Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0CC BY 3.0 Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 truetrue Vous souhaitez faire apparaitre cette photo sans crédit ? Contactez moi ! If you want to use the photo without credit, please contact me., Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0 This picture belongs to Xavier Caré. Please credit : Xavier Caré / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-SA. If you would like special permission to use, license, or purchase the image please contact me to negotiate terms. I'd appreciate if you could let me know about it or mail me ( xavier.carepm.me) if you want to use this picture out of the Wikimedia project scope., Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
Croix-Rousse silk workers, their traboules and their revolts
Your local guide
Margaux Perrin
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Highlights
- The Cour des Voraces, a six-storey open staircase
- A working Jacquard loom, thread by thread
- Routes of the 1831 and 1834 canut uprisings
- The Mur des Canuts painted wall
- Canut flats built tall enough for the looms
About this tour
This session walks Croix-Rousse, the hill where Lyon's silk workers once lived and worked, from the Cour des Voraces staircase to a working Jacquard loom. You see canut flats built tall enough for looms and the Mur des Canuts painted wall. It traces the routes the 1831 and 1834 uprisings took through the neighbourhood.
The guide opens with a sound check, then climbs the hill stop by stop, explaining how the streets and stairways served the silk trade and its revolts. Questions come in live, and a short list of what was covered follows by message afterwards.
This suits anyone interested in labour history told through the buildings that housed it. It also suits viewers who love traboules and hidden passageways.
Included
- Live video walk with a local guide
- Questions to your guide all the way
- A short list of places to visit later
Not included
- Internet connection
- Travel to the city
Itinerary
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Welcome and sound check 7 min
The guide joins the video call, checks the picture and sound with you, and gives you a quick sense of Lyon before heading out.
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Cour des Voraces 21 min
The camera climbs the Cour des Voraces, a six-storey open staircase built straight through a Croix-Rousse tenement. The guide explains how the canuts, the silk workers who lived here, used it to move between streets during the uprisings.
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A weaving workshop 21 min
Inside a weaving workshop, the guide shows a working Jacquard loom, its punched cards still controlling the pattern thread by thread. He explains how this same mechanism is often credited as an early ancestor of computer programming.
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Mur des Canuts 21 min
The walk passes canut flats built with four-metre ceilings to fit the looms inside, before reaching the Mur des Canuts, a painted wall showing the neighbourhood as it once looked. The guide traces the route the 1831 and 1834 uprisings took through these same streets.
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Your questions 14 min
Time to ask anything about Lyon: prices, safety, food, or whatever you are curious about.
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A short list to keep 6 min
Before you go, the guide sums up with a few things worth remembering: a dish to try: Quenelles and Vieux Lyon, worth a slower look.
Good to know
- A stable wifi or mobile connection makes the picture smoother than a shaky one.
- Any phone, tablet or laptop with a camera works. You watch, the guide does the walking.
- Times are shown in Paris time, so check the time where you are before you book.
- The session is not recorded, and recording it yourself is not allowed. Feel free to take your own notes.
- Ask questions any time, out loud or in the chat. The guide will pause to answer.
- Sessions run in small groups, up to 12 people, so there is room for everyone to ask something.
Questions about this tour
What will the session cover?
The guide walks through Lyon, showing you Vieux Lyon (Old Lyon) and Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière live on camera, plus whatever else you would like to see.
What happens if my connection drops?
Rejoin with the same link within a few minutes and the guide will catch you up on anything you missed.
Can I ask the guide questions during the session, or is it a fixed script?
Anything, any time. Sessions leave room for your own questions throughout, not just at the end.
Do I need to know the history already?
No background needed. The guide explains everything as it comes up.
How it works
- You get one join link after booking.
- Join from any device: phone, tablet or laptop.
- We meet on Google Meet; the link comes with your booking. I walk Lyon live with my phone and you ask anything as we go.
Times shown in Paris time (CET)
Cancellation
Flexible
- Cancel up to 24 hours before the start: full refund.
- Cancel less than 24 hours before the start, or no-show: no refund.
- If the guide cancels or the date does not reach its minimum group: full refund.
- Cancel in My Account → Bookings; the refund is calculated from the start time in the tour's local time.
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