Lyon Favorites

 9 Reviews  Sur la place St.-Jean, devant la cathédrale du même nom, ne manquez pas d'aller voir l'Herboristerie. C'est l'une des rares rescapées de France, où elles ont toutes pratiquement disparues. En effet,... 

 4 Reviews  During the Great French revolution Lyons became "the released commune". The history of working-class movement included the well-known revolts of the Lyons weavers 1831 and 1834, and during the second... 

 5 Reviews  Originellement du XIVe siècle, elle fut remaniée plusieurs fois. Elle indique : la date, les positions de la lune, du soleil et de la Terre, ainsi que celle des étoiles au-dessus de Lyon. Bien... 

 4 Reviews  Theatres Romains. There are two amphitheaters. The larger one, Grand Theatre, is the oldest in France. It was built in 15 BC to seat 10k people and still used for open air performances. The smaller... 

 10 Reviews  Très tôt, une pompe occupa la place, puis une fontaine où l'on devait installer la statue du préfet Vaïsse. La fontaine actuelle fût décidée en 1877. Sa réalisation fût confiée à l'architecte Gaspard... 

 2 Reviews  Le parc zoologique a été créé en même temps que le parc. C'est le deuxième en France après la ménagerie du jardin des plantes, et le cinquième en Europe. Au début, on ne parlait que d'une ferme à... 

 3 Reviews  In order to discover Lyon you do not have to make other that to walk between the 2 rivers that cross it and crossing the center climbimg on the hill that surpasses it. If you spend a night in this... 

 7 Reviews  La Croix-Rousse, "colline qui travaille", pendant ouvrier et laborieux de Fourvière, la "colline qui prie", a été bâtie au début du XIXè siècle sur des terrains qui appartenaient aux communautés... 

 5 Reviews  My main 'tools' of orientation (besides a map and a guidebook, that is) were the two big rivers that converge in the city of Lyon. The smaller one is called the Saone River. The bigger one is the... 

 6 Reviews  Fourviere hill: Basilica Fourviere (accessible by funicular to Fourviere or by foot from Vieux-Lyon) Fourviere hill: Rose garden (accessible by funicular to Fourviere; by foot from the Roman theatre... 

 2 Reviews  What do you know about Lyon? Well, I just knew it was the second largest city in France. So if you need it, stop at the tourist office at Place Bellecour for maps and info. All you need is to step off... 

 1 Review  Try to get your hands on a free issue of Le Petit Bulletin, it's a small, weekly newspaper packed with everything that's going on in Lyon, theatre, movies, exhabitions, clubs, bars,..... I found one... 

 1 Review  Breakfast was pretty much the same each day- bread and jam or zwiebacks called biscottes together with coffee and/or juice. However, with all the good things I had for lunch and supper each day, you... 

 1 Review   New Page 1 Visit the National opera House The structure of this building is cute!! During the resoration by Jean Nouvel, 5 ujnderground levels were digged and th 

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 Nemorino Says:  The Saône is the smaller of the two rivers that come together in Lyon. It is also the more scenic of the two and is better behaved, since it doesn’t flood as... 

 Nemorino Says:  Why do the Swiss call this the Rotten River? Not because it is rotten in the English sense of the word, but because Rotten happens to be the Swiss-German word... 

 alza Says:  The Passerelle du Palais de Justice has quite a fascinating history.A first bridge with ten arches was built on that site in 1638. It reached a high state of... 

 charlottespencer Says:  There are two sides to Lyon - Lyon Part Dieu and Vieux Lyon - divided by the Saone. If you are visiting, Lyon Part Dieu is not the place to go. It's your... 

 b1bob Says:  The best part of this trip was easily the weekend spent in the Alps in the small village of Alpe de Grand Serre. Round about 4.30pm, we had to stow our luggage... 

 Loulou18 Says:  Travel around.It is wrong to say of me that I have been to Lyon.I was there, but I was also on a great number of other places, like Liernolles, Vichy,... 

 mozart_WA Says:  When you arrives to Lyon by motorway from the south, you see the big petrochemical Rhone Valley(Solaize, Feyzin with Elf factories).You think certainly:this... 

 iNorv9 Says:  Check out the the official Office of Tourism at la Place Bellecour. Here they have free maps as well as plenty of advice on what to see.