Presquil

Antiquity

A Latin inscription, found in the area of ​​Vieille street, calls this place pagus de Condate ( Condat quarter ) ^[1] . Since the word Condat (means the confluence of rivers ) is a Gallic toponym , the Lyon historian Amable Auden concluded from this that at the foot of the Croix-Russ hill in Roman times there was a Gallic settlement ^[2] . The Roman city of Lugdun , which will eventually turn into Lyon, was founded in 43 BC. e. on the other side of the Sona - on the hill of Fourviere . On the peninsula, which until the 18th century was an island, there was a Celtic settlement called Canabae ( Latin Canabae ), there was a port that allowed goods to be transported along two rivers and merchant warehouses ^{[3] [4] [5]} .

At the end of the II century , as a result of the capture of the city by the troops of Septimius Severus , the infrastructure of the city was destroyed. Residents descend from the hill and settle mainly on the right bank of the Sona (the current district of Old Lyon ), but some move to the other side of the river and settle in Kanab. In the V century, the city ​​was captured by the Burgundians and turned it into one of its capitals. However, the outcome of the inhabitants continues, and by the 8th century the city ​​completely loses its significance ^[5] .

Middle Ages

Only in the Carolingian era, starting with the reign of Charlemagne , did the revival of the city begin. In 1077, a stone bridge was thrown across the Sona approximately opposite the modern Shang Square on the right bank and the Church of St. Nikita of Lyons on the left. As a result, the northern part of Presquilie begins to gradually become the commercial center of the city, while Old Lyon - the center of state and church authority. The swampy southern part of Presquil is still rural ^[5] .

Rebirth

In the 13th century, a bridge was also thrown across the second river, the Rhone. Since the XV century , 4 fairs have been held in the city annually, which attracts a large number of foreigners - especially Italians, Spaniards and Germans. New technologies come to the city - in 1473, Barthelemy Buye opened the first printing house, and by 1500 there were already about 50 of them. Since the 16th century, the city ​​has become a center for the production of silk fabrics - first in Presquilé and in the Saint-Georges quarter on the opposite bank of the Sona, and later on Croix-Rousse ^{[5] [4]} . The first steps are being taken to drain the territory, in the area of ​​the current Terro Square, two rivers are connected by a canal (now does not exist) ^[3] . The area of ​​the present Bellecour square is drained and turns into a military parade ground ^[4] . From the 17th century, Presquilles gradually began to be built up with impressive buildings, starting from the junction with the Croix-Russ hill from Sona and gradually moving south: numerous renaissance buildings appear on Mercier street, around the Jacobin and Terro squares, the Hotel Dieu hospital is expanding on the banks of the Rhone ^{[ 6]} .

18th century

At the beginning of the XVIII century, the territory of Presquilia was divided into two parts: in the south until the French Revolution, there is a huge abbey of Ene, which appeared on the site of the island of Kanabe ^[7] , and the north is the trading part of the city ^{[3] [8]} . Since in Old Lyon on the opposite bank of the Sona there is almost no place for construction, almost all new buildings are completed on Presquilla. A new magnificent building of the Hotel-Dieu hospital is under construction, new quarters are being built around the main square of Bellecour, and the Grolet quarter is being built up ^[9] . At the same time, Lyon, whose population by the middle of the 18th century is 130,000 people, suffocates within its borders - church lands occupy ¾ of its area ^[10] . Numerous proposals have been put forward on the drainage of the southern part of Presquilles and the integration of numerous islands into a single whole: first, the court architect Louis XIV Jules Arduin-Mansart (1646-1708) comes up with such a project, and a few decades later the Lyon architect and mechanic Guillaume-Marie Delorme (1700— 1782), but their projects are rejected due to excessive cost ^[11] . However, the city authorities intend to once implement such a project - say, on December 20, 1735, they will buy out the island of Monya from the owner, which will eventually become part of the peninsula ^[10] .

Finally, on April 9, 1766, the Lyon sculptor Antoine-Michel Perrach puts forward his project. The plan provides for the displacement of the confluence of the Rhone and Sona 2 kilometers to the south and the drainage of the entire resulting area ^[10] , which will double the area of ​​Preskil ^[4] . On October 13, 1770, Perrash received the consent of the city council, and exactly one year later, on October 13, 1771, he received the corresponding patent ^[12] . However, due to the death of Perrache in 1779, the company began to experience financial difficulties and was not able to fully implement the project. The management of the company for some time takes over the sister of the founder Ann-Marie, then in 1782 - Count Esperance de Lorensen. In 1783, a flood demolishes the company’s already erected wooden bridge over the Sona. On September 23, 1784, Count Lorensen turned to Louis XVI for help and transferred ownership of the entire southern tip of the future peninsula - approximately from the current Rampard d'Enay street and the Amper - Victor Hugo metro station. The king is committed to allocating 300,000 livres over two years to pay off the debts of shareholders and the construction of a stone bridge. However, at first a very cold winter of 1788-1789, then revolutionary upheavals do not allow to finish the work ^[13] . The company manages to build only one embankment, which now bears the name Perrash ^[14] . The complete reconstruction of the interfluve, which since then has been called Presquill ( French Presqu'île - the peninsula ), was completed only by 1841 ^[3] .

XIX century

Despite the fact that Perrash’s company was not able to fully realize its ambitious project (mills and a river station were never built), by 1800 the main works were completed and a new district was born. However, the Lyons are in no hurry to move to new lands, which remain unhealthy. April 10, 1805 Napoleon arrives in Lyon and decides to build an imperial palace on this site ^[10] . On August 7, 1806, Perrash’s company, struck by lack of money, donates the land of Presquill to the emperor. On July 3, 1810, an imperial decree was issued to begin work, but the imminent fall of the empire did not allow them to be realized - in July 1815, parts of the Austrian cavalry were located on the peninsula. For another ten years the terrain remains undeveloped and is subject to regular floods ^[11] . On July 15, 1826, the mayor's office, headed by Lacroix-Laval, publishes a plan for the further use of these lands, ^[12] giving priority to using the south of the peninsula as an industrial zone. The Royal Decree of March 7 provides for the construction of the Lyon- Saint-Etienne railway ^{[11] [10]} , on October 30, 1827, an agreement is signed with the Segen company, by which 283,000 m2 ^of land are transferred to it on which the company should build a river station, a railway station and access roads ^{[12] [10]} . First, a temporary station is being built in the area of ​​the current Charlemagne Street, and in 1853-1856, the station building existing today is being erected. On November 1, 1856, a regular railway service opens between Paris and Marseille through Lyon, the road takes 19 hours ^[11] .

On July 16, 1830, a decree was issued giving names to the streets of Preskil ^[10] . In 1836, the famous Lyon prison Saint-Joseph was established in this quarter ^[11] . However, nature still makes itself felt - the flood of 1840 leads to flooding of the left bank of the Sona, which resulted in the destruction of 231 houses and three bridges ^[12] .

During the reign of Napoleon III, thanks to the activity of the mayor of Claude-Marius Weiss (1853-1864), Presquill takes on a modern look. Weiss is called the "Lyon of Osman " - it turns the medieval streets around Bellecour and Toro squares into wide avenues (such as Imperial and Imperatris streets - the current Republik and President-Edouard-Herrio ), building them up with modern bourgeois quarters. The central part of Preskil becomes the most prestigious in the city ^{[3] [9] [8]} . Between 1858 and 1865, the Rhone and Sona embankments were built, which at the same time turned into dams that protect the area from constant floods ^{[4] [5]} , the last of which happened in 1856, flooding a significant part of Preskil ^[12] .

XX — XXI centuries

Between 1910 and 1950, there are no global urban development changes in the area. Notable changes can be attributed only to the destruction of the old Charite hospital - now in its place is the Place Antonin Ponce ^[4] . Since the 1960s, the serious development of Lyon's transportation issues began. In the 1970s, Mayor Louis Pradel built a large interchange hub near Perrache Station, in the very center. At the same time, a tunnel is being cut under Fourviere Hill, and the Paris-Marseille transit highway passes through the city center. At the same time, in 1978, the first 3 lines of the Lyon metro were launched, with Line A going from the Perrache station to the north through the whole of Presquil ^{[4] [15]} .

On July 7, 2011, at its 35th session, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee decides to include the historical part of Lyon, including the entire Presquilier region north of the Enet, in the World Heritage List ^{[16] [17] [18]} .

At the beginning of the XXI century, a large project was adopted in the reconstruction of the southernmost tip of Preskil - the Confluence quarter ^[19] . Since the time of engineer Perrash, who created this quarter at the end of the 18th century, it has been built up with industrial and transport facilities, as well as prisons. Now they are taken outside the city, and the quarter is completely rebuilt into a fashionable area of ​​the XXI century with housing, offices, commercial and cultural objects ^[4] .

Terro Square

Terro Square ( French Place des Terreaux ) - in the northern part of Presquilé from the 17th century there is Terro Square, which is considered one of the main squares of Lyon. The name comes from the word terrain - rammed earth . For many centuries, executions were carried out on the square, so there is a belief that it is not necessary to go through the middle of the square - the place where the scaffold used to be placed. At the end of the 19th century, a fountain was erected on the square by Frederic Auguste Bartholdi , the author of the New York Statue of Liberty . The fountain depicts a woman driving a chariot, which harnessed four horses - the fountain was originally planned for Bordeaux . The woman symbolizes the Garonne , and the horse - her 4 main tributaries. In 1992, the entire square was turned into one huge fountain, laying pipes under it, out of which 69 streams of water come out (69 is the digital code of Lyon and the Rhone Department). However, the state of this project is deplorable, its author Daniel Buran in August 2015 threatened to sue the city authorities of Lyon ^{[20] [21] [22]} .

Hotel de Ville

Hotel de Ville ( French Hôtel de Ville ) - this phrase in France is not called a hotel, but the city hall building. The current hotel de ville is a complex of several buildings in the style of the palaces of Louis XIII : with courtyards and even its own chapel. It is adjacent to Terro Square from the east and occupies a whole block, being limited from the north and south by Puy Geyot and Joseph Serlene streets and Comedie Square from the east. The city hall was built with the blessing of King Louis XIV for 28 years - from 1646 to 1672 by three architects: Simon Mopin, Jacques Lemercier and Girard Desargues ^[23] .

Palais Saint-Pierre

The southern part of Piazza Terro is bordered by the monumental facade of the palace of Saint-Pierre ( French Palais Saint-Pierre ). This palace is interesting from two points of view: as a historical architectural structure and as a container for the collection of the Lyon Museum of Fine Arts . Before the French Revolution, the building of St. Peter's Palace (Saint-Pierre) was the residence of the convent. The date of foundation of the monastery is unknown, but some scholars call it the V century - in any case, it certainly already exists at the end of the VI century , as it is mentioned in the letter of the Lyons bishop Leydrad Karl the Great from 810. The construction of the current building was begun in 1659 and completed several decades later. In 1792 the monastery was closed, the building was confiscated and the barracks were located in it. Since 1801, the palace has been occupied by the Museum of Fine Arts - the largest in Lyon and one of the largest in France - its area is 14,500 m ^{2 [24] [21]} .

Opera

On the opposite side of the Comedy square from the Hotel de Ville is the building of the Lyon Opera ( French Opéra ). After the opera was founded in Paris in 1687, the Lyons decided to follow their example and also founded their own theater. However, for many decades he did not have a permanent premises. The first opera building was built only in 1754-1756 according to the design of Jacques-Germain Sufflo , it had an oval shape (the auditorium for 2000 seats with three tiers of boxes was of the same shape) and an Italian-style facade. In 1826, a decision was made to rebuild the opera - the Sufflo Theater was demolished, and in its place by 1831 a new theater was built according to the project of Antoine-Marie Shenavard and Jean Pole . This building had a facade in the style of classicism with a gallery and an attic , on which in 1863 sculptures of eight muses were installed (instead of those planned by Field nine). According to the initial design, the theater hall was supposed to accommodate 2,400 spectators, but it only contained 1,800 in the final form. In 1989-1993, the building was rebuilt again - this time according to the design of Jean Nouvel . An additional semicylindrical glass dome was erected above the old building, which almost doubled the height of the opera ^{[25] [21]} .

Louis Pradel Square

Place Louis Pradel is located north of the Opera House, adjacent to the Rhone promenade. It was formed in the second half of the 70s with the demolition of the quarter of old houses for the construction of the subway (opened in 1978). It is a pedestrian square with steps, on which several modern sculptures are installed. The square is named after Louis Pradel , who was the mayor of Lyon for two decades: from 1957 to 1976 ^[26] .

Republik Street

Republik Street (Republic, fr. Rue de la République ) - the main street of the northern part of Presquil, cutting it from north to south. The development of the project took place in 1841-1853, the construction - during the Second Empire , from 1854 to 1865. Lyon Mayor Claude-Marius Weiss took measures that went down in history under the name of Ottomanization in honor of another French mayor of the same era. When laying the street, 289 old buildings were demolished, 12,000 people were resettled and 32,410 m ^{2 of} living space was erected. There was a wide straight street with built in a similar style, but differing among themselves richly decorated 5-6-storey houses with attics and compulsory commercial premises on the ground floor. Since the 1970s, a significant part of the street has been pedestrian ^[27] .

Palace of Commerce

Among other things, on the corner of Republic street and Piazza Cordelier in 1856-1861 the building of the Palace of Commerce ( French Palais du Commerce ) was erected. In this richly decorated building, 64.5 meters long and 57.6 meters wide, externally and internally, commercial organizations scattered before this in different quarters of the city are located under the same roof: Chamber of Commerce, Arbitration Court, Labor Court, Exchange Company, Silk Manufacturers Company, Art -industrial museum. Until 1934, the building housed the headquarters of the Bank Credit Lionne . Among other things, this building became known for being captured in the film of the Lumiere brothers “ Cordelier Square in Lyon ”, which was shown at the first public screening on December 28, 1895 on the Boulevard de Cappuccino in Paris ^{[28] [29]} .

Church of St. Bonaventure

On the other side of Piazza Cordelier from the Palais des Commerce is the Church of Saint Bonaventure ( fr. Église Saint-Bonaventure ). This church in the original style with a strong Gothic influence, richly decorated with sculpture and stained glass, was first built in 1327 by Franciscan monks, whose possessions occupied a significant part of Presquilles before the French Revolution . The church was repeatedly destroyed: especially in 1562 during the religious wars and in 1796 during the French Revolution. It was rebuilt many times: for the last time in 1848 during the restructuring of Preskil ^[30] .

Typography Museum

The Museum of Printing and Graphic Communication ( Fr. Musée de l'Imprimerie et de la Communication Graphique ) is located in a historic building known as the Hotel de la Couron ( Crown House ) and built no later than the mid- 15th century . The first mention of the building dates back to 1493. Throughout the first century of its history, it was the apartment building of wealthy merchant families Var, Fe, Tu. In 1604, the house was bought by the city and until 1654 the city hall is located here. Then, for two centuries, the Crown House becomes residential again - until 1863, when located nearby, in the building of the Trade Palace, the Bank of Credit Lionne acquires it to store its archives. In 1954, the building was redeemed for the second time in its history by the city, which opened in 1963 - to the centenary of Bank Credit Lionne - the Museum of Book Printing and Banking. To date, the museum, which has been called the Museum of Book Printing and Graphic Communication since 2014, covers an area of ​​1200 m2 and is one of the largest museums in Europe in its field ^{[31] [21]} .

Church of St. Nikita of Lyon

Church of St. Nikita of Lyon (Saint-Nizier) ( French Église Saint-Nizier ) - a medieval church in the Gothic style, possibly built on the site of an early Christian sanctuary. Probably, Grigory of Tours writes about this sanctuary, speaking about the burial place of the remains of the martyrs of 177. The foundations of the 6th-7th centuries were found in the foundation of the church, so, perhaps, a founded by Saint Eucherios of Lyons stood there Church of the Holy Apostles and 48 Martyrs (mentioned in the 9th century by Adon of Vienna ). The church, under its modern name, is found in a letter from Bishop Leidrad to Charlemagne (early 9th century). In 1306-1308, the church became the center of the Preskilsky parish. The construction of the current building began at the end of the fourteenth century, but the exact date is unknown. Already in the years 1450-1481, a major restructuring of the church took place: a bell tower, a nave, and side chapels were erected. In 1538, the construction of the portal begins, but in 1562, during the Religious Wars , the church was badly damaged by Protestants, it was restored in 1578-1598, however, some buildings (for example, the southern tower) will be completed only in the 19th century. During the siege of Lyon by the troops of the Convention in 1793, it was badly damaged by artillery fire. Almost throughout the nineteenth century, construction work and interior decoration work are underway. So, the stained-glass windows will be finished only in 1898. Already in 1840 the building was classified as a historical monument ^[32] .

Mercier Street

Mercier Street ( French: Rue Mercière ) is an old Lyon street, known since Gallo-Roman times. Initially, it went from west to east, but in the Middle Ages it changed direction and became parallel to the Sona. In the XVI century, it was on this street that the Lyon pioneer Barthelemy Bouillet located his workshop, and then his colleagues, thanks to which Lyon became one of the centers of European book publishing for the whole 100 years (along with Venice and Paris). By the middle of the 18th century, the narrowness of Mercier Street made it difficult to fulfill its transport functions, but only by 1850 did they break through the more spacious Santral Street (today, Brest Street). As a result, many businessmen leave Mercier Street and move to Santral Street, and then east to Imperial Street (now Republik) and Imperatris (now President Eduard Erio). The street is desolate, there are numerous plans for the reconstruction (actually demolition) of the street: in 1909 the first plan is not finished, in 1925 another appears, providing for the construction of a new quarter with a 50-story tower in the center - it is also not implemented. In the 1960s, when the reputation of Mercier Street finally deteriorated - it was filled with vicious places with prostitutes - the final plan for the demolition of the street was adopted. However, residents begin to protest and turn to the Minister of Culture Andre Malraux , who seeks to obtain the status of protected streets and the whole block. A plan for the revival of Mercier Street is adopted, similar to what was previously prepared for Old Lyon , which contributes to its revival. Now most of the street is pedestrian, there are numerous restaurants. Today, guidebooks call the street one of the centers of Lyon gastronomy ^[33] .

Hotel Dieu

Hotel Dieu ( fr. Hôtel-Dieu ) - founded not later than 1184 hospital on the Rhone promenade. The monumental facade of the current building with a dome was erected in 1748-1778 according to the design of Jacques-Germain Sufflo . Hotel Dieu is also known for having worked as a physician in the walls of Francois Rabelais during his writing of “ Gargantua and Pantagruel .” Since 2011, work has been underway to transfer the hospital to other rooms and turn the Hotel Dieu buildings into a hotel and exhibition complex ^[34] .

Bellecour Square

Place Bellecour ( Place Bellecour ) is the largest square in Lyon and the fourth largest square in France ( 62,000 m2 ), the largest square in Europe without automobile traffic (it is only on its perimeter). According to the decree of Louis XIV of December 28, 1658, it appeared on the empty lands before as a royal square . It was built up with facades designed by the court architect Robert de Côte . Originally called the Square of Louis the Great, in the center of the square in 1713 a bronze equestrian statue of Louis XIV was erected, made by Martin Desjardins . However, in 1793, during the French Revolution, the statue was removed and melted down to “revolutionary cannons”, and the buildings on the square were destroyed in punishment for the rebellion of the Lyons against the Paris authorities. Later, the houses on the square were rebuilt, and in 1825 a new equestrian monument appeared to Louis, instead of the destroyed one - this time it was made by Francois-Frederic Lemot . The square is located in the center of Presquilles and Lyon: all distances and heights are calculated from it (the height of the square itself is 170 meters above sea level). It also converges the main streets of Preskil: Republik, President Edouard Eriot, Victor Hugo and others ^{[35] [21]} .

Charite Hospital

Between Place Bellecour and the Rhone promenade is Place Antonin Ponce, with a lone bell tower rising almost in the middle of it. This is all that remains of the Charite Hospital ( Fr. Hôpital de la Charité ), which existed here since the 17th century, the largest and oldest after the Hotel Dieu. A complex of several buildings with courtyards and covered two-three-story galleries was erected in the years 1616-1630 as a hospital for the poor. By the 19th century, it had become the largest medical institution in the field of maternal and child health. However, by the beginning of the 20th century, it was decided that the old building did not meet modern medical and hygiene requirements, and in 1934 all buildings, with the exception of one bell tower, were demolished ^[36] .

Victor Hugo Street

Street Victor Hugo ( fr. Rue Victor Hugo ) - the main street in the southern part of Presquil. Built in the first half of the XIX century. Different in architecture, but in the same style: retail premises on the ground floor, then 3-5 richly decorated residential floors with rows of balconies. In the perspective of the street in the north you can see the equestrian statue of Louis XIV in Bellecour square, and in the south - Carnot square and Perrache station. In 1976, due to the construction of the first metro line, the street was closed for two years for traffic. Opening, it became the first fully pedestrian street in France ^[37] .

Amp Square

The straight line, as if drawn on a ruler, Victor Hugo street is interrupted only in one place - where the Place Ampère is located . Directly south of the present square until the 17th century was the confluence of the Rhone and Sona. Around the square are beautiful houses of the XIX century, and in its center there is a monument to the physicist and chemist Andre-Marie Ampere and a fountain. Burgela Street departs from the square in the direction of Sona, where the first veterinary school in the world was opened in house No. 19 in 1755 ^[38] . When digging a pit for the construction of the Ampé-Victor Hugo metro station in 1976, a well-preserved fragment of an ancient Roman mosaic of the 2nd century was discovered under the area. Once it was part of a wealthy estate located here. This mosaic adorns the station platform in the direction of Vaun-en-Velen - La Sua. In 2014, during the construction of the elevator to the station, another mosaic fragment was discovered ^{[39] [40]} .

Museum of Fabrics and Decorative Arts

The Museum of Fabrics and Decorative Arts ( Fr. Musée des tissus et des arts décoratifs ) is located on 34 Charite Street. The idea of ​​creating a museum of fabrics came up with a group of Lyon entrepreneurs after they visited the World Exhibition in London in 1851. It was originally opened in 1864 in the building of the Palace of Commerce under the name Museum of Art and Industry. In the museum collection were collected as samples of fabrics produced by Lyon weavers, as well as a variety of textile materials of 4,500 years of history. The Museum of Decorative Arts was independently created and opened in 1925 as a private museum. Over the past 25 years, it has managed to collect various decorative objects from around the world. In 1950, the two museums were combined and have since been located at the modern address ^{[41] [21]} .

Church of St. Francis of

Between Rue Victor Hugo, Piazza Antonin Ponce and the Rhone embankments, at the corner of Sala and Auguste Comte, is the church of St. Francis de Sales ( Fr. Église Saint-François de Sales ). The church in the neoclassical style was built in 1807-1847 on the site of the chapel of St. Mary Magdalene , which existed since 1690, in which there were two institutions for fallen women. The church houses the organ of 1880, classified in 1977 as a historical monument ^[42] .

St. Martin's Basilica at Aene

Basilique Saint-Martin d'Ainay ( Saint-Martin's Basilica) is one of the oldest churches in Lyon. For a long time it was believed that its foundation dates back to the V century , based on one of the texts of Gregory of Tours . Now it is being questioned, but its extreme antiquity is unconditional. The oldest part is the St. Blandina chapel - on its territory there are burial sites of the Merovingian era dating back to the 10th, and possibly 9th centuries. In the 13th century, the Abbey of Haines owns 169 churches and is one of the most influential in France. In 1600, Henry IV stopped at the abbey, who came to Lyon to marry Marie de Medici (however, the wedding itself takes place in the Lyon Cathedral ). In the XVI century, during the Religious Wars, the abbey was severely destroyed, from this moment its decline. In the XVII century, it is almost disappearing, the church of St. Martin turns into a parish. On June 13, 1905, by decision of Pope Pius X, the church was elevated to the rank of a small basilica. Today the basilica is the only surviving Romanesque church of the 11th century in Lyon ^[43] .

Confluence Museum

The Confluence Museum (Mergers, French: Musée des Confluences ) is the newest and most modern museum in Lyon; it opened on December 20, 2014. The museum is located in the extreme southern part of Preskil, in the Confluence quarter, which is now turning into the most fashionable and modern quarter of the city. This museum combines several collections related to the natural sciences and ethnography - it is also called the museum of science and society. The project of the building, in which one sees a cloud and the other a crystal, was developed by the Austrian architectural bureau Coop Himmelb (l) au and causes controversy: someone considers it a masterpiece of modern architecture, and someone is frankly dissatisfied ^[44] .

On Presquile is the Lyon-Perrache Railway Station serving both local lines (RER) and intercity (Intercités) and high-speed ( TGV ) trains. Paris - Marseille expressway passes through Presquil, designated A6 in the direction of Paris, A7 in the direction of Marseille ^[45] .

Intra-district transportation is carried out by metro , tram , bus and trolley :

• Along a large part of Presquilie, from south to north, there is a metro line A , there are stations: Perrache , Amper - Victor Hugo , Bellecour , Cordelier and Hotel de Ville - Louis Pradel , after which the line turns east, crosses the Rhone and goes to the side Guillotier and Villeurbanne . At the last of the above stations, a change is also made to line C , which goes north - to the Croix-Russ region and further to Calleyr-e-Cuir . From west to east, Preskill is also crossed by line D with the only Bellecour interchange station on its territory.
• The southern part of the district, where there is no metro, is served by a T1 line tram. There is also the terminus of the T2 tram line at Perrache Station.
• The area is entangled in a dense network of buses and trolleybuses.
• On the territory of Preskil there are a large number of bike rental points (the average distance between stations is 200 meters) ^[45] .