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  • The Rhône River in Lyon
      The Rhône River in Lyon
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  • 1. The Saône River in Lyon
      1. The Saône River in Lyon
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  • More people on bikes by the Rhône
      More people on bikes by the Rhône
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  • Parc de la Téte d'Or, Lyon

    1. Parc de la Téte d'Or

    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...   more
  • Croix Rousse, Lyon

    2. Croix Rousse

    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...   more
  • Vieux Lyon - general, Lyon

    3. Vieux Lyon - general

    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,...   more
  • Cathédrale St-Jean, Lyon

    4. Cathédrale St-Jean

    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...   more
  • Presqu'ile, Lyon

    5. Presqu'ile

    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...   more
  • Musée Civilisation Gallo-Romaine &Amphitheatres, Lyon

    6. Musée Civilisation Gallo-Romaine &Amphitheatres

    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...   more
  • Basilique Notre Dame de Fourvière, Lyon

    7. Basilique Notre Dame de Fourvière

    La basilique de Notre-Dame de Fourvière domine la ville de Lyon depuis le sommet de la colline de Fourvière, sur l'emplacement de l'ancien Forum de Trajan (Forum vetus, d'où le nom de Fourvière), où...   more
  • History and facts, Lyon

    8. History and facts

    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...   more
  • Fourvière Hill, Lyon

    9. Fourvière Hill

    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...   more
  • Place Bellecour, Lyon

    10. Place Bellecour

    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...   more
  • Food and eating, Lyon

    11. Food and eating

    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...   more
  • Orientation and Transportation, Lyon

    12. Orientation and Transportation

    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...   more
  • Rhône & Saône Rivers, Lyon

    13. Rhône & Saône Rivers

    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...   more
  • National Opera House, Lyon

    14. National Opera House

    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   more
  • Local Information, Lyon

    15. Local Information

    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...   more
  • The Rhône River, Lyon

    16. The Rhône River

    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...   more
  • The Saône River, Lyon

    17. The Saône River

    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...   more
  • The Foot-bridge that would not go away, Lyon

    18. The Foot-bridge that would not go away

    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...   more
  • Lyon - divise en deux, Lyon

    19. Lyon - divise en deux

    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...   more
  • The best part of this trip was..., Lyon

    20. The best part of this trip was...

    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...   more
  • Travel around.It is wrong to..., Lyon

    21. Travel around.It is wrong to...

    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,...   more
  • When you arrives to Lyon by..., Lyon

    22. When you arrives to Lyon by...

    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...   more
  • Office of Tourism - Place Bellecour, Lyon

    23. Office of Tourism - Place Bellecour

    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.   more

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Lyon, the city of Vélo'v

 Lyon is a beautiful city at the confluence of the Rhône and Saône Rivers in east-central France in the Rhône-Alpes region. Among many other attractions, Lyon has a very distinctive and successful... 

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Lyon, Uneso World Heritage

 The Lyon metropolitan area, the largest in the Rhône-Alpes region, lies in a strategic location in the natural plain of the Rhone Valley. It is surrounded by the Beaujolais country in the north, the... 

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A Well Sited City At The Center of France

 Our first views of Lyon were of the Place des Jacobins only two short streets from our hotel , the Grand Hotel Concorde. We were headed toward the walking bridge over the Saone River and had reached... 

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J'ADORE ♥ LYON

 - UNESCO World Heritage city since 1998 - city with the most vibrant cultural/night life in France beside Paris and Marseille - home of gourmet chef Paul Bocuse and capital of the famous French... 

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Former Capital of the Gauls

 After bypassing Lyon many times on my way to other places, I spent a few days there in 2004 and really enjoyed it. I recommend it to anyone who wants to know a real French city. I found it extremely... 

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