Parc de Gerland
Riverside park of lawns and gardens laid over a former cattle market and slaughterhouse.
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This guide to Parc de Gerland in Lyon starts with the deafening cattle market that once covered this ground, penning thousands of animals a day toward the killing floors. It follows the young architect Tony Garnier, hired by mayor Edouard Herriot in 1906 to replace the city's filthy old slaughterhouses with something closer to a garden city, laying out covered market streets and planted avenues across the site. The First World War interrupted his work, turning the half-built halls into a wartime arsenal before the market ever opened for business.
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