page_title: Place Croix-Paquet
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Place Croix-Paquet / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: metro train line C of Lyon (France) taken from entry of station "Croix Paquet". Between the rails of the tracks you can see the rack-rail (dark) and a tube for cables (light).
context_page_description: The Place Croix-Paquet is a square located in the 1st arrondissement of Lyon, in the pentes de la Croix-Rousse quarter. It is formed by the intersection of the rue du Griffon, the rue des Capucins and the montée Saint-Sébastien. The square belongs to the zone classified World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
context_section_description: The square seems more like an intersection of streets and illustrates the very old concept platea which referred to the wide section of a street. It is frequented by pedestrians and motor vehicles of all kinds, as it is located on a major strand of access to the various quarters of the 4th arrondissement of Lyon.
  The square is bounded on the south by two blocks of old houses and is connected by traboules to the petite rue des Feuillants and the Place du Griffon. At No. 1, there is a corner traboule crossing two buildings, with a simple house on the ground floor, a wooden door with a knocker and a dark courtyard. The Cour du Moirage at No. 3 was an industry installed in 1753 by English John Badger at the request of the Duke of Mirepoix, Ambassador of France in London, and is now a straight traboule with a posh building. At No. 5, the traboule is long and spans three buildings. It consists of a small yard and a larger courtyard paved with  cats heads, and has two side exits, and a straight exit through a massive passage with four columns in the style of the Passage Thiaffait. The No. 10 is isolated in the garden and remains of arches show that it was originally part of a block on the bottom of the montée Saint-Sébastien.
  There are many shops on the square, including grocery stores, a hairdresser, a doctor, a psychologist, a real estate agency, a pharmacy, a restaurant, a laundromat. The site is served by the Croix-Paquet metro station on line  C , originally part of the Croix-Rousse-Croix-Paquet funicular railway which was inaugurated on Sunday 12 April 1891.
  The square has a significant vegetation, including acer cappadocicum, acer japonicum, Atlas Cedars and Honey locusts, and is the place of many activities organized by the city. Several redevelopments were undertaken in the 2000s: in 2000, the kindergarten Michel Servet was extended on the northern part of the garden of the square. Other works were planned for 2003. Above the metro station, several stairways provide access to the surrounding streets.
caption: Metro train line C view from entry of the Croix-Paquet station, close to the square
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