Wednesday, April 6th is our last day in Lyon. I wanted to be sure to see some traboules, covered and sometimes secret passageways between parallel streets. Most are not accessible to the public, but there are still a few in Vieux Lyon where we are staying. We went through two, then went to the meeting point for a walking tour we had scheduled. Guess where we went on the tour? Yep, we went through a couple of traboules! They were used by silk workers to keep the silk dry while going from one stage of silk making to another. They were also used by the Resistance during WWII, which we focused on today.

After the walking tour we took a funicular to the Roman ruins. The Roman’s arrived here in approximately 43 AD and Lyon became one of the most important cities in the Roman Empire. Unfortunately the museum was closed.

Next stop, the Centre D’Histoire De La Résistance Et La Deportation, or the Resistance and Deportation Museum. The displays were in French, but they gave us information to review in English and some of the audio interviews had an English option for subtitles. I can read a bit of French, so I probably got a bit more out of it, but I think we both learned something. During WWII the Resistance used the traboules to evade the Nazi’s during their planning.