A city two millennia old on the confluence of the Rhône and the Saône, Lyon backs onto the Fourvière and Croix Rousse hills. It offers you an unusual journey through time and across cultures, with its centre listed as a World Heritage Site, down its narrow streets, its 'traboules' (narrow secret passages), along its bustling quays, on the big squares of the peninsula and with over 200 floodlit sites at night.
Not to be missed in Lyon :
?Roman Theatres and Old Renaissance Lyon
?Fourvière basilica and La Croix Rousse with its silk-weavers'workshops
?Cultural life: biennal arts festivals, national opera, dance, theatres, national orchestra
?Museums : Fine Arts, Cinéma-Lumière, Textiles, Gallo-Roman Civilisation...
?Illumination Scheme : over 200 sites floodlit each evening
?Shopping :designers, fashion, antiques, markets, squares, gardens
?Lyon's gastronomy : its small traditional restaurants, its top-flight restaurants
?Lyon along the Rhône and the Saône : boat trips, quays, riverbanks and bridges...
?The vineyards : Beaujolais, Côte Rôties, Côte du Rhône
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