If you love browsing around shops by young designers, interspersed with a good organic meal, this is your neighbourhood.
This is the place to be if you are looking for the casual atmosphere of an alternative student district, with hip cafés, organic restaurants, studios and quaint boutiques. The residents of the Pentes de la Croix-Rousse are known for their creativity, which is expressed in countless shops with homemade clothes, colourful posters and original jewellery and accessories. Look around Rue Romarin in particular. Even on the walls of the district, you will see many unusual tags and other artistic extravagances. You'll enjoy taking the painted steps of Passage Mermet, as well as Montée de la Grande-Côte, full of unusual shops.
