A tunnel that tells a vision of the city, a course in the past of social struggle, rails plunging into the Rhône, a villa embedded in a building… Since 2014, Rue89Lyon has been helping you discover Lyon and its heritage with a particular eye: that of the Anti-Routard. In this map, explore the city through places, stories and portraits like you’ve never seen it before.
Do you know the anti-backpacker of Lyon? When Rue89Lyon launched this series in 2014, the objective was to discover places, buildings, or unknown monuments in Lyon, far from tourist guides.
But the unusual is not everything. Gradually, our goal has been to lead the reader to question his environment. What is this building? What does he say about Lyon? How does his story illustrate current events?
Today, anti-backpackers talk as much about unusual places, like this pretty villa next to the Part-Dieu station, completely engulfed by a modern building but kept intact, as about characters or places that tell the story of a district.
Sometimes these articles come back to the gentrification of a district, as through the portrait of Les Valseuses. Sometimes, they explain the reason for a wart at the entrance to the city, with the Tunnel de Fourvière. Sometimes they tell a moment of history, as with the Court of the Ravenous or the end of an era, with the closure of the Other side of the bridge. In any case, their purpose is to shed light on current events, like that on the eternal bad reputation of the Guillotière district.
In this map, we invite you to discover them one by one.
Tired of the Routard guide? We offer you the Anti-Routard de Lyon. A guide away from tourist paths. ©DR
The little-known story of well-known places
Note that another important criterion guides our choices for this anti-backpacker: all the places we present to you must be accessible to the public even if it is only a few days a year. Or at least be visible from the outside.
Some places are well known. Of all, or of their neighborhood. But their stories are much less so. The Villa Berliet, which bears the name of the famous family of automobile manufacturers or another bourgeois building, the Villa Monoyer, which still belongs to the family of this ophthalmologist from Lyon. You don’t know him? Yet he is the inventor of the famous vision test that you all passed one day.
If you know of unknown places or secret stories of more famous places, do not hesitate to give us your ideas in comments or here: hello@rue89lyon.fr
2023-08-07 04:19:05
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