Gros Caillou
Twenty-four-ton glacial boulder unearthed during funicular tunnelling, mounted as a monument to engineering feats.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Gros Caillou on the Croix-Rousse slope in Lyon starts with a local legend: the stone as the heart of a bailiff named Jean Tournette, and the silk weavers, the canuts, who figure in his sentence. It then turns to what workers struck in eighteen ninety while cutting a trench for the Croix-Paquet funicular, and to the day in April 1891 when the stone was set on its pedestal. Best heard standing right beside it, with a hand on the rock.
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