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Rue du Bœuf

The Rue du Bœuf is a cobbled pedestrian street, 188 metres long, in the Vieux Lyon, lined only with houses of the 16th and 17th centuries and included in the UNESCO World Heritage site. Walking along it you can see documented Renaissance façades and courtyards: at no. 16 stands the Tour Rose, a 16th-century building with an inner courtyard and a tower of pink plaster, whose 17th-century doorway is richly decorated with reliefs and ringed columns, topped by a pediment with a bas-relief of the Nativity or Adoration of the Magi attributed to Bologna. At no. 13 there is a taurus sculpted by Martin Hendricy around 1640 as the emblem of the Italian Torelli family. No. 11 was the house of the procurator general Pierre Builloud, and no. 19 corresponds to the house of L'Outarde d'or, the former sign of a poultry seller, built in 1487 with a sign from 1708. The street has numerous traboules, although they are not open to the public; the most notable and longest in the Vieux Lyon is at no. 27 and passes through four houses to the Rue Saint-Jean. You can also see the Montée des Chazeaux, which crosses the street near the Rue de la Bombarde and owes its old nickname of "Tire-Cul" to its 230 steps. At no. 6, the Cour des Loges, a former Jesuit religious institution, is today a complex of four Renaissance buildings that houses a five-star hotel and a Michelin-starred restaurant. The street was created at the end of the 3rd century, when the inhabitants of Fourvière came down to the bank of the Saône, and by 1825 it had 315 silk looms and 150 workshops.

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