Vieux-Lyon charms visitors with its cobbled alleyways, courtyards, staircase towers, Italian-style galleries, and famous traboules. It surprises with the opera, re-designed by the distinguished French architect Jean Nouvel, suddenly arising at the corner of a steep alley. In the contemporary Confluence district, the future of architecture is represented by the Musée des Confluences. Lovers of silk - a historical savoir-faire in the city - and crafts will enjoy a stroll around the Croix-Rousse district. As for open spaces, the Parc de la Tete d’Or, inspired by English landscape gardens, spreads across 105 hectares of land and welcomes the public since 1857.