Pentes de la Croix Rousse

This guide to the Pentes de la Croix-Rousse in Lyon follows the silk weavers, or canuts, who worked tall-windowed looms on this hill and struck in November 1831 when merchants kept cutting their pay. It traces the traboules, the hidden passages threading through the buildings around you, from the barricaded streets of the 1830s and 1840s uprisings to the Cour des Voraces stronghold, and on to a very different use by resistance fighters during the Nazi occupation. Climb the courtyard's six-story staircase and you're tracing the same escape route two generations used a century apart.