Mur des Canuts

A monumental trompe-l'oeil by **CitéCréation**, first painted in **1987** and revised over time, this wall turns a blunt gable into an illusionistic slice of Croix-Rousse life. Windows, stairways, workshops, reels of silk and neighborhood figures evoke the world of the **canuts**, the 19th-century silk workers whose labor shaped Lyon's identity. Its style is realistic in structure but theatrical in effect: from a distance it reads like architecture, while up close it reveals painterly wit and a dense social portrait of a workers' quarter. ([lyon.fr](https://www.lyon.fr/lieu/contemporaine-19eme-20eme/mur-des-canuts?utm_source=openai))

Angle boulevard des Canuts et rue Denfert-Rochereau, 69004 Lyon, France