Lyon itinerary
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Vieux Lyon (Old Town)
Vieux Lyon is the largest Renaissance quarter in Europe outside Italy, a dense grid of ochre-and-cream townhouses squeezed between the Saône river and the Fourvière hill. Built up between the 15th and 17th centuries…
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Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière
The Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière crowns the hill of the same name at 130 metres above the river, its four octagonal towers and gleaming white limestone visible from almost anywhere in central Lyon. Construction…
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Fourvière Roman Theatres (Théâtres Romains)
A few hundred metres downhill from the basilica sits the oldest Roman theatre in France, built into the Fourvière hillside around 15 BCE under Emperor Augustus and later expanded to seat 10,000 spectators. A smaller…
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Presqu'île and Place Bellecour
The Presqu'île is Lyon's central peninsula, a narrow 500-metre-wide strip of land between the Rhône and Saône that holds the city's main shopping streets, opera house and grandest squares. At its heart is Place…
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Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon
Occupying a former 17th-century Benedictine convent on Place des Terreaux, the Musée des Beaux-Arts is one of the largest fine-art museums in France, second in scale only to the Louvre. Its 70 galleries hold works…
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Parc de la Tête d'Or
Opened in 1857 on the east bank of the Rhône, Parc de la Tête d'Or covers 117 hectares and is the largest urban park in France. It contains a 16-hectare boating lake with rental rowboats (EUR 8 for 30 minutes), a free…
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Les Halles de Lyon Paul Bocuse
Named after the late Lyonnais chef who held three Michelin stars for 55 straight years, Les Halles de Lyon Paul Bocuse is the covered food market at 102 Cours Lafayette in the 3rd arrondissement. Beyond a plain 1970s…
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Confluence District and Musée des Confluences
At the southern tip of the Presqu'île where the Saône meets the Rhône, the Confluence district is a redeveloped former industrial docklands turned architectural showcase. Since 2010 the area has been rebuilt around a…
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Croix-Rousse District
The Croix-Rousse hill rises steeply north of Place des Terreaux and was Lyon's silk-weaving heartland during the 19th century, when 30,000 canut looms operated in the tall-ceilinged apartments still standing today. The…
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Le Mur des Canuts and Fresque des Lyonnais
Lyon has more than 150 painted murals across the city, a public art tradition dating from the 1980s. Two are worth seeking out. Le Mur des Canuts, at the corner of Boulevard des Canuts and Rue Denfert-Rochereau in…
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