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FRESQUE DES LYONNAIS
Mural
(cnr rue de la Martinière & quai de la Pêcherie, 1er; Hôtel de Ville)
Well-known Ly-
onnais peer out from this seven-storey mural, including loom inventor Joseph-Marie
Jacquard (1752-1834), Renaissance poet Maurice Scève (c 1499-1560), superstar
chef Paul Bocuse (b 1926), puppet Guignol, and the yellow-haired Little Prince, cre-
ated by author/aviator Antoine de St-Exupéry (1900-44).
Riverside Rejuvenation
The Rhône's Rive Gauche (left bank), once the domain of high-speed traffic and car
parks, has been extensively redeveloped in the past decade to provide Lyon with a fab-
ulously landscaped walkway and cycling and inline-skating tracks, spanning 10 hectares
over 5km of riverfront known as the
Berges du Rhône
.
Further downriver, the former industrial area of the
Lyon Confluence
(
www.lyon-conflu-
ence.fr
)
is now the focus of another multimillion-euro rejuvenation project.
Maison de La
Confluence
( 04 78 38 74 00; 28 rue Casimir Perier, 2e; admission free; 2-6.30pm
Wed-Sat; tramline 1, Montrochet stop)
, with a bird's eye view of construction from its
rooftop terrace, displays scale models of the area's ongoing development.
and-humanities museum to be housed in a futuristic steel-and-glass transparent crystal, is
estimated to open in 2014, about half a decade behind schedule. Until then, the
Local
d'Information du Musée des Confluences
( 04 78 37 30 00;
www.museedesconfluences.fr
;
86 quai Perrache, 2e; admission free; 1-6pm Wed-Sat,
10am-noon & 1-6pm Sun)
offers sneak previews of the Musée des Confluences' future col-
lection.
Croix Rousse
Independent until it became part of Lyon in 1852, and retaining its own distinct char-
acter with its bohemian inhabitants and lush outdoor food market, the hilltop quarter
of Croix Rousse slinks north up the steep
pentes
(slopes).
Following the introduction of the mechanical Jacquard loom in 1805, Lyonnais
ca-
nuts
(silk-weavers) built tens of thousands of workshops in this area, with large win-
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