The district of Fourvière in Lyon called "the hill that prays", and the Croix-Rousse – "the hill that works".

The heyday of Lyon as a center of textile production occurred in the early nineteenth century – after his native named Jacquard invented a loom and the cloth it produced, over time, came to be called jacquard. In the early nineteenth century weavers who have had a in Old Lyon, began to move to the hill of Croix-Rousse. They settled families in apartment houses, in each of the rooms which was standing loom. Today on textile last quarter of Croix-Rousse is reminiscent of a Museum "the House of the weavers, as well as several boutiques and ateliers that sells silk products.

The Croix Rousse also became the site of the tragic events of 1834 – the execution of weavers protesting against low wages. All in Lyon in the nineteenth century there were three uprisings of workers – besides the above mentioned, in 1831 and 1848 respectively.

As the Old quarter of Lyon and the Presqu'île, in Croix-Rousse, you can see the famous Lyon traboule – passages in houses, with the help of which you can quickly and seamlessly move from one street to another. There are several versions of the origin of these passages Lyon. On one of them, traboule exist since ancient times. On the other hand, they appeared in the Renaissance and are borrowing from Italian architecture. In Croix-Rousse traboule appeared during the mass migration of weavers. In these passages they could quickly turn out to be at the foot of the hill, where usually there were traders of raw silk and fabrics buyers. In the XX century during the Second World traboule helped to escape the persecution of the Resistance fighters.

Other attractions in La Croix Rousse is called the monument to the inventor of the loom Joseph-Marie Jacquard, a fresco on the wall of the house on the Boulevard Weavers and huge stone. Fresco makes looking at her to believe that before him is a staircase and behind her a few more houses, and not the picture. Block of stone, found during the construction of the funicular railway in 1890, even has its own name – "the Big rock".