Vieux Lyon
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How it came to be
Lyon, in France, was already a settlement in Celtic times. In 43 BC, on the orders of the Roman Senate, Lucius Munatius Plancus founded Lugdunum as a settlement for war refugees. It became the capital of the Three Gauls, and the emperor Claudius was born here. Roman remains are still visible on the hill of Fourvière.
Vieux Lyon, between the Saône and Fourvière, holds the Cathedral of St John, built between 1160 and 1481, and one of the most extensive Renaissance quarters in Europe. Fairs introduced by Italian merchants in the late 15th century made the city rich, and Italian banker-merchants built their mansions in the Saint-Paul quarter. Passages called traboules run through the buildings and link street to street.
In the 19th century silk workers, the canuts, gathered on the Croix-Rousse hill, where they rose in major revolts in 1831 and 1834. In 1964 Vieux Lyon became the first area in France protected under the Malraux law. In 1998, 427 ha spanning the Roman era to the 20th century were inscribed as a World Heritage site.
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