Roots EarthLyon, France
La Croix-Rousse
Known as the hill that works, this 254-meter slope is lined with tall-windowed buildings raised for the canuts, silk weavers whose 1831 revolt was among Europe's first workers' uprisings. Its steep stairways and traboules now shelter a village-like creative quarter.
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Location
Coordinates: 45.77944, 4.8275