The Museum of arts of Lyon is located in a former Benedictine convent on the Terreaux square. From 1988 to 1998, the Museum underwent major renovation works. Its collections, which embrace a period between the ancient Egypt and modern art, make it one ... Read more

The Museum of Gallo-Roman civilization is located in Lyon, near the Roman theatres, on the Fourvière Hill, which is situated at the heart of the city of Lugdunum. The Museum regularly hosts temporary exhibitions. Lugdunum (Lyon), capital of the province of Lyonnaise, was an important and prosperous Gallo who ... Read more

La Croix-Rousse was nicknamed "la colline qui travaille" (The hill wich works) in the nineteenth century. It was indeed a high place for of industrial weaving silk. Still today, the Croix-Rousse is an singular affluent urban, marked by both its geography, its history ... Read more

Fourvière is the name of the hill which dominates the centre of Lyon in the West, and the central district of this hill. Faced with Fourvière, the peninsula, the eastern districts of the city and the plain of Lower Dauphiné let ... Read more

Specificity from Lyon, the mural freso has become the mirror of inhabitants of Lyon. For over twenty years, the artists of the City of Creation affirmed in color and trompe-l'oeil. It is a cooperative of artists founded in 1978, based in Oullins, which has made frescos, ... Read more

The peninsula is an area of the city of Lyon classified as World Heritage by UNESCO in 1999. From the foot of the Croix-Rousse hill until Confluent district. The east neigborhoods of the Peninsula is in perpetual motion since the Middle Ages and became ... Read more

With its 2000 years of history, the city of Lyon has the advantage of having retained traces of its various phases of development, its districts have maintained a rich and diverse heritage. The Roman colony was established on the hill of Fourviere, the remains of the former Lugdunum ... Read more

With its 2000 years of history, the city of Lyon has the advantage of having retained traces of its various phases of development, its districts have maintained a rich and diverse heritage. The Roman colony was established on the hill of Fourviere, the remains of the former Lugdunum are ... Read more

With its 2000 years of history, the city of Lyon has the advantage of having retained traces of its various phases of development, its districts have maintained a rich and diverse heritage. The Roman colony was established on the hill of Fourviere, the remains of the former Lugdunum ... Read more

The "Vieux Lyon", old city of Lyon, classified as world heritage of UNESCO, is the medieval and Renaissance neighborhoods Lyon. It is located along the Saône river, at the foot of Fourviere Hill. This is one of the largest districts of this periode which is ... Read more