District Fourviere in Lyon called "the hill that prays", and Croix-Rousse district - "the hill that works".

Lyon's heyday as a center of textile production occurred at the beginning of the XIX century - after his native by the name invented the Jacquard loom, and the web, it produced eventually became known as jacquard. At the beginning of the XIX century, the weavers, before residing in the Old Lyon, began to move en masse to the hill of the Croix-Rousse. They settled their families in apartment buildings, each of the rooms which was a loom. Today, on the last quarter of the textile Croix-Rousse recalls Museum "House of the weavers," as well as several shops and establishments that sell silk products.

Quarter Croix Rousse also became a place of the tragic events of 1834 - the execution of the weavers, protesting against low wages. All in Lyon in the XIX century, there were three workers' uprising - besides those already mentioned, in 1831 and 1848.

As in the old quarter of Lyon and Presqu'île, Croix-Rousse can see the famous Lyons trabuli - passages in the houses with the help of which you can quickly and seamlessly move from one street to another. There are several theories about the origin of Lyons trabuley. On one of them, trabuli there since ancient times. On the other hand, they appeared in the Renaissance and are borrowing from Italian architecture. The Croix-Rousse trabuli appeared during the mass migration of weavers. In this passage, they could quickly be at the foot of the hill where the merchants were usually raw silk and fabrics buyers. In the XX century, during World trabuli helped to escape from the persecution of Resistance fighters.

Among the other attractions of the Croix-Rousse is called Monument to the inventor of the loom Joseph-Marie Jacquard, a fresco on the wall of the house on the Boulevard Weavers and a huge stone. Fresco makes looking at her to believe that it is in front of stairs and followed her a few houses, and not drawing. Boulder, found during the construction of the funicular in 1890, even has its own name - "Big Stone".