Montée de la Grande Côte
Location | 1st arrondissement of Lyon, Lyon, France |
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Postal code | 69001 |
Coordinates | 45°46′18″N 4°49′54″E / 45.7716°N 4.8316°E |
Construction | |
Construction start | 16th century |
Completion | 20th century |
The Montée de la Grande Côte, or the Montée de la Grande-Côte, is a street of La Croix-Rousse quarter, in the 1st arrondissement of Lyon, which connects the Terreaux quarter and the Plateau de la Croix Rousse. It is characterized by a high elevation and is more narrow at the bottom. The street belongs to the zone that is classified as World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
History
In the
While the rest of the plateau and slopes of La Croix-Rousse were mainly composed of religious congregations, the Grand'Côte already hosted many
The road surface was changed in 1855 to provide a sanitary sewer. From 1854 to 1930, the rue des Pierres Plantées was incorporated to the montée de la Grande Côte.[8] In 1895, the young Marius Berliet developed his first car, called the Pantoufle in the homestead of La Croix-Rousse; trials were held in the montée de la Grande Côte, but the car ended up in the window of a butcher.[9] In the last decades of the 20th century, a policy of urban renewal destroyed the upper part of the street and the adjacent islands (e.g., in 1975, all the houses at the top of the street were demolished), creating a visible hole in the quarter.
Some sections are currently exclusively pedestrian. The upper part was transformed:[1] staircases, gardens and an esplanade offering a view over the city. The part between the rue des Tables Claudiennes and the rue Burdeau is the only one to have kept its original width.
Architecture
The more interesting architecture of the street, composed of beautiful doorways and arches, can be found in the southern part of the street. At the north of the rue Imbert Colomès, there are canut-styled buildings of the 19th century and four buildings of the 1970s. Then, before the rue des Tables Claudiennes, there are a 20th-century school and two old houses. Before the rue Burdeau, there are two-floor houses, and before the rue Leynaud, a six-floor public housing replacing houses before 1988, and a covered parking; beyond, the street is more narrow and lined with a large variety of old houses. To the east, there are old two to four-floor houses, the oldest of them built in the early 16th century.[5]
At No. 2, there was a Roman sculpture. At No. 89-90, there was a statue of a
The houses are classified as World Heritage Site.
The Grand'Côte gave its name to the Littré de la Grand'Côte, a dictionary about the Lyon speaking written by Nizier of Puitspelu (aka Clair Tisseur).
Traboules
There are several traboules in the street:
- Nos. 9, 11, 13: This is an open traboule which crosses four buildings, with central courtyard and stairs. There is the 1986 residence of André Dupasquier, with a kindergarten, the terrace of the famous cafe Le Montana and restaurant Tête à Claps just before. To give the place a neo-Roman style, a fountain was scheduled at the top of the stairs.[13]
- No. 69: This curved traboule is open. There are, among other things, a small old house, a large courtyard with walls painted, a troglodyte flat and a glass door.[14]
Photos
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Old building
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Mullioned windows - Beginning of the montée de la Grande Côte
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The lowest part of the street
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The street viewed from its low part
References
- ^ a b "Les noms de rues ou de places liés à la topographie du lieu" (PDF) (in French). Lyon. p. 2. Archived from the original (pdf) on 2011-07-18. Retrieved 2010-07-08.
- ^ Brun De La Valette, Robert (1969). Lyon et ses rues (in French). Paris: Le Fleuve. p. 145.
- ISBN 2-7348-0062-4.
- ^ ISBN 2-7171-0377-5.
- ^ a b "Montée de la Grande Côte" (in French). Rues de Lyon. Retrieved 11 December 2009.
- ^ "Lyon au XIX° siècle — Histoire(s) de Lyon au 19ème siècle" (in French). Lyon 19. 27 January 2007. Retrieved 11 December 2009.
- ^ Bayon, Denis. Le commerce véridique et social de Michel-Marie Derion (in French). Éditions Atelier de création libertaire.
- ISBN 2-84147-126-8.
- ^ Bruno Benoit (2 January 2007). "Marius BERLIET (1866-1949) — Un « poids lourd » de l'industrie lyonnaise" (in French). Millénaire, le Centre Ressources Perspectives du Grand Lyon. Archived from the original on 13 August 2009. Retrieved 11 December 2009.
- ^ "Listing des Saints et Madones du 1er" (PDF) (in French). Lyon. Archived from the original (pdf) on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 27 January 2010.
- ISBN 2-7234-3442-7.
- ^ Meynard, Louis (1932). Dictionnaire des lyonnaiseries — Les hommes. Le sol. Les rues. Histoires et légendes (in French). Vol. 2 (1982 ed.). Lyon: Jean Honoré. pp. 291–92.
- ISBN 2-904899-01-4.
- ISBN 2-904899-01-4.