The traboules (Tour Rose)
Guide
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FreeSightAllow 30–60 minPut together by AI from open data
What you'll see
Doors off the street that open into covered passages, through vaulted halls and courtyards to the next street; the best known leads to a round pink stair tower rising through a courtyard.
A brief history
Traboules let people cross between streets without going round the block; in the Croix-Rousse they later helped silk workers carry cloth out of the rain, and the Resistance used them to slip away in the war.
Tips
- Best time
- Daytime on a weekday
- Cost
- Free
- Allow
- 30–60 min
- Free days
- Always free; look for doors with a small lion-head plaque
- Hours
- Open traboules are usually open to walkers during the day, roughly 8:00–19:00; residents live here, so keep your voice down (check)
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Good to know
- Area
- Vieux Lyon: The Renaissance old town along the Saône, with its traboules and the cathedral: atmospheric, lively at night, with a hostel or two on the slope.
- Access
- Partly step-free
- Indoors or out
- Partly indoors
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