The Centre d’Histoire de la Résistance et de la Déportation occupies a compound of late nineteenth-century buildings that once served as a military health school. Its red brick walls and tree-lined courtyard are situated on Avenue…
Resistance on Screen
Walk through the historic streets and landmarks of Lyon to see the real-life locations that double as cinematic sets for classic French Resistance films.
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1. Centre d'Histoire de la Résistance et de la Déportation
2. Mémorial National de la Prison de Montluc
The Mémorial National de la Prison de Montluc is identified by its high, gray perimeter walls that enclose a nineteenth-century-style military complex on Rue Jeanne Hachette. Originally built in nineteen twenty-one as a military prison,…
3. Parc de la Tête d'Or
The Parc de la Tête d'Or stretches across one hundred seventeen hectares, defined by a large lake and expansive green spaces that contrast with the dense urban fabric of Lyon. Prefect Claude-Marius Vaïsse commissioned the project in…
4. Rue Joseph Serlin
The Rue Joseph Serlin runs alongside the City Hall of Lyon, connecting the Place des Terreaux to the Quai Jean-Moulin. This street is marked by a recent transition into a pedestrianized, green space, designed with a pattern of three…
5. Place des Terreaux
The Bartholdi Fountain, a monumental bronze sculpture of a chariot pulled by four wild horses, acts as the center of the Place des Terreaux. The square is framed by the seventeenth-century City Hall to the east and the Museum of Fine Arts…
6. Place de la Trinité
The Place de la Trinité is a triangular, fully paved intersection tucked against the base of the Fourvière hill in the Saint-Georges neighborhood. It functions less as a grand square and more as a convergence of five narrow streets,…
7. École catholique des arts et métiers
The École catholique des arts et métiers, or ECAM, features a series of terraced gardens known as the Jardins de l’ECAM that overlook the city of Lyon. These gardens provide a vantage point that Jean-Pierre Melville chose for a specific…
8. Montée de l'Observance
The Montée de l'Observance is a road that winds up the hillside of Fourvière in tight, forested switchbacks. Traced in eighteen forty-six, it cuts through the grounds of what was once a fifteenth-century Franciscan monastery. You can…
9. Fort de Loyasse
The Fort de Loyasse sits on the hillside of the ninth arrondissement, distinguished by its heavily inclined defensive slopes, or glacis, which allowed it to blend into the steep terrain. Built between eighteen thirty-six and eighteen…