Welcome to The Confluence, contemporary city heart and first French long-lasting(sustainable) labelled district WWF.CONÇUE to answer the uses(practices) of the city of the xxıe century, she disavows nothing of her rich past.
Having gained(won) on waters at the xv ııı e century, invested(surrounded) by rail and industry in the xıx e then by logistic and harbour activities in the xx e century, The Confluence became, in the xx ı e century, a new district of Lyons. In 15 years, the city completely invented a new destiny.
150 years of industrial history(story) were assumed(accepted) thanks to a strict stage of cleanup and the conservation of emblematic buildings(ships) redeployed by history(story) of Lyon, old(former) prisons in the detached houses(flags) of the port(bearing) Rambaud or in the covered market of the wholesale market.
The designers knew also how to take advantage of assets(trump cards) of this territory — a river, a river of the wooded hills and of the space — to create a generous environment and to conciliate inhabitants of Lyon with their history(story).
The ambition of this reconversion(retraining)? Restore in inhabitants of Lyon a piece of neglected Lyons and invent a respectful, living benevolent and environment its city heart towards its inhabitants. For a new lifestyle in the contact of nature and of water.
Architects, landscapists, engineers, sociologists, associations, companies and storekeepers: all talents were gathered(combined), all encouraged innovations. Objective: double the city centre of Lyons and restore life and uses(practices) in an abandoned district. In 15 years, the city reconquered its rights, with a beautiful walk in edge of the Saône.
The exhibition(exposure) which we propose to you tells this adventure with pride across the look of inhabitants of Lyon, real or fictitious, actors and audience of a new act of the history(story) of their city. Discover it and especially, leave us during your visit, because adventure continues.