# Traboules of Lyon

Lyon, France

Hundreds of covered passageways thread through Lyon's buildings, linking parallel streets across Renaissance courtyards and spiral staircases. First built around the fourth century for access to water, they later carried silk for the canuts and sheltered Resistance fighters.

## Roots Earth

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Coordinates: 45.7639, 4.8276

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