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Pro
Nice place for a city break, good shopping and nice restaurants and bars
Con
pollution, car traffic and drivers attitude
In a nutshell
Magnificient city and much easier to handle than Paris!
Basilique Notre Dame de Fourvière
43 Reviews Looming above Lyon from its position on a hilltop on the right bank of the Saône, the Basilica Notre-Dame de Fourvière can be seen from numerous places in the city. So it is certainly a prominent landmark, even for those of us who dislike the building and what it stands for. Like the Basilique du...
43 Reviews A lovely old town to explore and is worth at least an afternoon of anyones time! Enjoyed our afternoon here albeit a freezing cold one and also too a ride on the funicular(later tip) up the Fourviere Hill for fantastic views over the city.
18 Reviews Two rivers run through the city but the west one, the Saone, flows into the Rhone at the south end of Lyon. The tourist is more attracted to the Saone because its west bank rises at first gradually and then as an abrupt hill called the Fourviere at whose top is a 19C Basilica and a modest sized...
19 Reviews The high tower - "a pencil" sticks out in the center of the old city in which there is a central office of known the Lyons credit bank. It is better to walk on narrow streets of the old city not hurrying up. It is possible to get acquainted with one more sight of Lyons - covered passes between...
17 Reviews This bell tower is all that remains of an old hospital, L'hôpital de la Charité, which was built in 1633 and enlarged in the eighteenth century in order to serve the poorest people of the region. The tower was built in 1804 for use as a baby hatch, where destitute mothers could anonymously leave...
12 Reviews Along the north side of the Place des Terreaux is the large set of statues and a lead fountain created by the sculptor Bartholdi. which represent the Saone and Rhone rivers heading to the sea. Along the east side of the square is the Hotel de Ville. The facade is a replacement by Hardouin-Mansart...
26 Reviews The tours of St. jean are very short but differ in their decoration and are best seen from different sites. The transept towers are best seen from the walking bridge across the Saone. The only large group of sculptures remaining are about 300 medallions each about one foot square upon the jambs of...
16 Reviews My limited French suggests "almost island" which i guess is about right, the area between the Rhone and Saone rivers in the centre of town. Many shopping and restaurant opportunities and a good wandering location too, maybe notso on a very wet Sunday afternoon. Anyway the obligatory few photos!
10 Reviews One thing I'll say for the Lyon opera house: you can't mistake it for any other building in Lyon, or for any other opera house in the world that I know of. Or do you know of any other building that has a nineteenth century façade topped by a huge black vault shaped like a half barrel? The...
10 Reviews I liked this sign at the entrance to the Fine Arts Museum, listing twenty things you ARE allowed to do in the museum, intermingled with only eight things (crossed out) that you are NOT allowed to do. So over twice as many things are allowed than not allowed. You ARE allowed to: look, discuss,...
3 Reviews and 266 Opinions I must admit to sleeping around in my favorite cities! :-) Blame it on wanting to experience...
2 Reviews and 277 Opinions I loved this hotel. Request a room with a Rhone River view (balcony of course). Try and get...
18 Reviews I visited this place a Sunday night and then they played salsa music and also karoke in French. There werent so many people here and they had no entrance fee. You just pay 2 euros to hang your jacket. I can think this place is much better Thursdays to Saturdays when it is open to five o'clock in the...
3 Reviews The old part of the city has a good selection of restaurants. There are also touristy types of streets: full of cheap, reasonable-to-poor quality restaurants (very similar to those streets in the Latin Quarter in Paris). If you wander around to the quieter streets, you may find better French places....
14 Reviews The German and French railways have announced that starting March 23, 2012 there will be a direct high-speed train connection (only once a day at first, but still) from Frankfurt am Main via Mannheim, Karlsruhe and Strasbourg to Lyon, and then on to Avignon, Aix-en-Provence a
25 Reviews Unlike most other French cities, Lyon never completely abandoned its old network of trolleybus lines. Instead, these lines have been modernized. They now use modern Cristalis trolleybuses, either simple or articulated. These lines now run mainly on reserved bus lanes to avoid getting stuck in...
4 Reviews Around Lyon you have many wineyards and also companies which sells guided tours to the wineyards. If you want to do one of these trips, which I did not have time and I was there during the wrong season. Go to the tourist office and get more information what kind of wine tours they can offer for you,...
2 Reviews The Festival of Lights is probably the most popular as well as the most established event in Lyon occurs on December 8th. Lanterns adorn balconies and windows and streets a full of performers making the event quite a visionary display. Different events are organised in the different quarters. The...
4 Reviews Pérouges is a typical village of the Middle Age located on top of a hill at about 35km of Lyon. A lot of efforts have been made to preserve its medieval character and all the historic buildings have been restored. It's very charming.
2 Reviews The Palais Idéal du Facteur Cheval in Hauterives in the department of Drôme in central France is my kind of palace. It was built by and for a hard working man as opposed to royalty. This palace was built by a mail carrier who, during years of mail delivery, collected stones of all shapes and sizes...
Basilique Notre Dame de Fourvière
8 Reviews 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 Saint Pothin subit le martyre. Son architecture de style néo-byzantin est l'œuvre de Pierre...
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, de diplôme n'est plus préparé depuis de nombreuses années et la profession est en voie de...
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Viens voir Guignol! - I was born in Toulouse, in the south est of France, but I moved to LYON two years ago for my studies. I was a bit affraid of leaving Toulouse a very welcoming and pleasant town, but since the very...
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Q: I know that these are 3 very different cities/towns--all 3 with wonderful reviews, but can only choose 1 for an upcoming stay. We...
A: I am afraid they are all very high on the list of tourist destinations and the summer, particularly August, may find them at their busiest and most expensive. My...
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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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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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- 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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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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