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Cour des Voraces, Lyon, France

Cour des Voraces, a traboule with 6 storey diagonal staircase, built c. 1840, formerly housing workshops of canuts or silk weavers, in the Quartier de la Croix-Rousse, in Lyon, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, France. Traboules are covered passageways around and between buildings, used by silk workers to transport their products. Vieux Lyon or Old Lyon is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Cour des Voraces, a traboule with 6 storey diagonal staircase, built c. 1840, formerly housing workshops of canuts or silk weavers, in the Quartier de la Croix-Rousse, in Lyon, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, France. Traboules are covered passageways around and between buildings, used by silk workers to transport their products. Vieux Lyon or Old Lyon is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen