Once the river crossed, the street ended in the district of Canabae, the current peninsula, below the city of Lugdunum, on the right bank of the Saône.

This is attested by cippi mausoleums or burial found in this area due to the presence of a Roman necropolis located around the access road to the city.

[4] The base of the tower is visible on a 1550 scenographic plan and would have been only partly destroyed when Protestant troops left the place in 1561.

[9] The street starts with a wide part between the two gray stone big facades of the universities, then widens again after the Rue Pasteur with workshops and a two-floor large square building.

After the Rue Gryphe and the Place Prado, it becomes a common avenue with two rows of buildings, high at north, more diverse and lower at south.