Maison des Ovalistes — Lyon, France

The place

The building was put up for silk weavers. The tall workshop windows, designed to light the looms, give the rooms clear light from morning to evening. A stone staircase spirals around an open stairwell.

Rooms on the upper floors look over the Saône or the rooftops of the peninsula. A vaulted room on the ground floor serves breakfast.

The neighbourhood

The Croix-Rousse market is held on the boulevard every morning except Monday. The traboule passageways lead down to the banks of the Saône in a fifteen-minute walk. Place des Terreaux and the Musée des Beaux-Arts are fifteen minutes on foot down the slopes.

Good to know

• 14 rooms over four floors, with a lift.
• Breakfast served from 7:30 to 10 am in the vaulted room.
• Croix-Rousse metro station (line C) six minutes on foot.
• Lyon-Part-Dieu station twenty-five minutes away by public transport.
• Pets accepted on prior request.