Lyon (Arpitan: Liyon), often Anglicized as Lyons,
is a city in east-central France
in the
region Rhône-Alpes, situated
between Paris
and Marseille
. Its name is pronounced in
French and
Arpitan, and or in
English.
Lyon is located at 470 km from Paris,
320 km from Marseille, 160 km from Geneva
, 280 km
from Turin
, 450 km
from Milan
and
600 km from Barcelona
. The residents of the city are called
Lyonnais (singular and plural).
Lyon is a major centre of business with a reputation as the French
capital of
gastronomy and having a
significant role in the
history of
cinema due to
Auguste
and Louis Lumière. The local professional
football team,
Olympique Lyonnais, has increased the
profile of Lyon internationally through participation in
European football championships.
Together
with its suburbs and satellite towns, Lyon forms the second-largest
metropolitan area in France after
that of Paris
, with the
population of its urban area estimated to be 1,783,400 and that of
its metropolitan area 4,415,000 (2007). Its urban region
(
Urban Community of
Lyon), represents half of the
Rhône-Alpes région population with three million
inhabitants. Lyon is also a major industrial centre specializing in
chemical, pharmaceutical, and
biotech industries. The city also
contains a significant software industry with a particular focus on
video games.
Lyon is
the préfecture
(capital) of the Rhône
département, and also the
capital of the Rhône-Alpes région. The city is known for
its historical and architectural landmarks and is a
UNESCO World Heritage Site. Lyon was
historically known as the
silk capital of the world. The
city is known as the culinary capital of France.
It also hosts the
international headquarters of Interpol
, Euronews, International Agency
for Research on Cancer. Lyon is a pilot city of the Council of Europe and the European
Commission
Intercultural
cities programme.
History
- Main article for early history: Lugdunum
.
- Main article for the middle ages: History of Lyon
Lyon was
founded on the Fourvière
hill as a Roman colony
in 43 BCE by Munatius
Plancus, a lieutenant of Caesar,
on the site of a Gaulish hill-fort settlement called Lug[o]dunon,
from the Celtic god Lugus ('Light', cognate with Old Irish Lugh,
Modern Irish Lú) and dúnon (hill-fort).
Lyon was first named Lugdunum meaning the "hill of lights" or "the
hill of crows". Lug was equated by the Romans to
Mercury.
Agrippa recognized that
Lugdunum's position on the natural highway from northern to
south-eastern France made it a natural communications hub, and he
made Lyon the starting point of the principal
Roman roads throughout
Gaul.
It then became the capital of Gaul, partly thanks to its convenient
location at the convergence of two navigable rivers, and quickly
became the main city of Gaul. Two emperors were born in this city:
Claudius and
Caracalla. Today, the
archbishop of Lyon is
still referred to as "
le primat des
Gaules" and the city often referred to as the "capitale des
Gaules".
The
Christians in Lyon were persecuted
for their religion under the reigns of the various Roman emperors,
most notably
Marcus Aurelius and
Septimus Severus. Local saints
from this period include saints such as
Blandina (Blandine),
Pothinus (Pothin) , and
Epipodius (Épipode), among
others.
The great Christian bishop of Lyon in the 2nd century was the
Easterner
Irenaeus.

Lyon under siege (1793)
Burgundian refugees from the destruction of
Worms
by Huns in 437 were resettled by the military commander of
the west, Aëtius, at Lugdunum, which
was formally the capital of the new Burgundian kingdom by
461.
In 843, by the
Treaty of Verdun,
Lyon, with the country beyond the
Saône,
went to
Lothair I, and later became a part
of the
Kingdom of Arles. Lyon only
came under French control in the fourteenth century.
Fernand Braudel remarked,
Historians of Lyon are not sufficiently aware of the
bi-polarity between Paris and Lyon, which is a constant structure
in French development from the late Middle Ages to the
Industrial Revolution (Braudel 1984 p. 327). The fairs in
Lyon, the invention of Italian merchants, made it the economic
countinghouse of France in the late
15th century.
When international banking moved to Genoa
, then
Amsterdam
, Lyon simply became the banking centre of France;
its new Bourse (treasury), built in 1749, still resembled a public
bazaar where accounts were settled in the open air.
During
the Renaissance, the city developed with
the silk trade, especially with Italy
; the Italian
influence on Lyon's architecture can still be seen. Thanks
to the silk trade, Lyon became an important industrial town during
the 19th century.

Lyon in the 18th century
Lyon was a scene of mass violence against
Huguenots in the
St. Bartholomew's Day
Massacre in 1572.
During the
French Revolution, Lyon
rose up against the
National
Convention and supported the
Girondins. In 1793, the city was under siege for
over two months, assaulted by the Revolutionary armies, before
eventually surrendering. Several buildings were destroyed,
especially around the
Place Bellecour, and
Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois with
Joseph Fouché administered the
execution of more than 2,000 people. A decade later,
Napoleon himself ordered the
reconstruction of all the buildings demolished during this
period.
The silk workers of Lyon, known as
canuts, staged
two major
uprisings: in 1831 and 1834. The 1831 uprising saw one of the
first recorded uses of the
black
flag as an emblem of protest. The world's first funicular
railway was built between Lyon and La Croix-Rousse in 1862.

Lyon in 1860
Lyon was a centre for the occupying
German forces and also a stronghold of
resistance during
World War II, and the city is now home to a
resistance museum.
(See also Klaus
Barbie.) The traboules,
or secret passages, through the houses enabled the local people to
escape Gestapo
raids.
Geography
Lyon's
geography is dominated by the Rhône and
Saône rivers that
converge to the south of the historic city centre forming a
peninsula or "Presqu'île
"; two large hills, one to the west and one to
the north of the historic city center; and a large plain which
sprawls eastward from the historic city centre.
To the
west is Fourvière
, known as "the hill that prays", the
location for the highly decorated Notre-Dame
de Fourvière
basilica, several convents, the palace of the
Archbishop, the Tour
métallique
(a highly visible TV tower, replicating the last
stage of the Eiffel
Tower
) and a funicular (a
railway on a steep hill).
To the north is the
Croix-Rousse,
"
the hill that works", traditionally home to many small
silk workshops, an industry for which the city was once
renowned.
The
original medieval city (Vieux Lyon
) was built on the west bank of the Saône river at
the foot of the Fourvière
hill, west of the Presqu'île
. This area, along with portions of the
Presqu'île
and much of the Croix-Rousse is
recognized as a UNESCO
World Heritage Site.
Place
Bellecour
is located
on the peninsula (Presqu'île
) between the rivers Rhône and Saône and is the
third largest public square in France and one of the largest in
Europe. Specifically, it is the
largest clear square (i.e., without any patches of greenery, trees
or any other kind of obstacles) in Europe. The broad,
pedestrian-only Rue de la République leads north from Place
Bellecour. The 2
nd arrondissement has many of the finest
old residential buildings in Lyon and the area is known for its
concentration of old Lyonnaise Catholic families, particularly in
the Ainay part of the arrondissement.
East of
the Rhône from the Presqu'île
is a large area of flat ground upon which sits
much of modern Lyon and most of the city's
population.Situated in this area is the urban centre of
Part-Dieu
which clusters the former Tour du
Crédit Lyonnais
, "Part-Dieu Tower" today, the Tour Oxygène, the Tour Swiss Life , the Part-Dieu shopping
centre, and one of Lyon's two major rail terminals, Lyon
Part-Dieu
.
North of
this district is the relatively wealthy 6th
arrondissement, which is home to the Parc de la
Tête d'Or
, one of Europe's largest urban parks, the
prestigious Lycée du
Parc
to the south of the park, and Interpol
's world headquarters on the park's western
edge. The park contains a free zoo that has recently been
upgraded.
Several
buildings are being constructed in Part-Dieu
such as the Tour
Oxygène and other projects such as the Tour Incity
Climate
Climate Table
|
Jan |
Feb |
Mar |
Apr |
May |
Jun |
Jul |
Aug |
Sep |
Oct |
Nov |
Dec |
Year |
Mean daily maximum temperature (°C) |
6.2 |
8.4 |
12.4 |
15.3 |
20.0 |
23.5 |
27.0 |
26.7 |
22.3 |
16.7 |
10.2 |
7.1 |
16.3 |
Mean daily minimum temperature (°C) |
0.1 |
1.2 |
3.3 |
5.6 |
9.9 |
13.1 |
15.6 |
15.3 |
11.9 |
8.4 |
3.6 |
1.5 |
7.5 |
Mean total rainfall (mm) |
52.9 |
50.5 |
54.8 |
72.3 |
87.8 |
80.2 |
62.0 |
69.0 |
88.3 |
94.7 |
75.1 |
55.5 |
843.1 |
Mean number of rain days |
9.4 |
9.0 |
8.8 |
9.5 |
11.3 |
8.8 |
6.8 |
7.2 |
7.7 |
10.3 |
9.2 |
9.5 |
107.5 |
Source: worldweather.org |
Administration
Lyon is the capital of the Rhône-Alpes
région, the
préfecture of the Rhône
département, and the
capital of 14
cantons, covering 1
commune, and with a total
population of 488,300 (2007).
Arrondissements

Lyon's early 17th-century town
hall.
Like
Paris
and Marseille
, Lyon is divided into a number of municipal
arrondissements (sometimes translated into English as boroughs), each of which is identified by a number
and has its own council and town hall.
Five
arrondissements were originally created in 1852, when three
neighbouring communes (La Croix-Rousse
, La Guillotière,
and Vaise) were annexed by Lyon.
Between 1867 and 1959, the 3
rd arrondissement (which
originally covered the whole of the Left Bank of the Rhône) was
split three times, creating a new arrondissement in each
case.
Then, in 1963, the commune of
Saint-Rambert-l'Île-Barbe was
annexed to Lyon's 5
th arrondissement. A year later, in
1964, the 5
th was split to create Lyon's 9
th
– and, to date, final – arrondissement.
Within each arrondissement, there are a number of recognisable
quartiers or neighbourhoods:
- 1starrdt : Pentes de
La
Croix-Rousse
, Terreaux,
Martinière/St-Vincent
- 2nd arrdt :
Cordeliers, Bellecour
, Ainay, Perrache,
Confluent
- 3rd arrdt
: Guillotière (north), Préfecture, Part-Dieu, Villette,
Dauphiné/Sans Souci, Montchat, Grange Blanche (north), Monplaisir
(north)
- 4th arrdt
: Plateau de la Croix-Rousse, Serin
- 5th arrdt: Vieux Lyon
(Saint-Paul,
Saint-Jean, Saint-Georges), Saint-Just, Saint-Irénée, Fourvière
, Point du Jour, Ménival, Battières, Champvert
(south)
- 6th arrdt : Brotteaux,
Bellecombe, Parc de la Tête d'Or
, Cité Internationale
- 7th arrdt
: Guillotière (south), Jean Macé, Gerland
- 8th arrdt
: Monplaisir (south), Bachut, États-Unis,
Grand Trou/Moulin à Vent, Grange Blanche (south), Laënnec, Mermoz, Monplaisir-la-Plaine
- 9th arrdt
: Vaise, Duchère, Rochecardon, St-Rambert-l'Île-Barbe, Gorge de
Loup, Observance, Champvert (north)
Culture

- Since the Middle Ages, the residents of the region, speak
several dialects of Franco-Provençal language.
The Lyonnais dialect was partly replaced by
the French language as the
importance of the city grew. However, it is still alive and, in
addition, some "frenchified" Franco-Provençal words can also be
heard in the French of the Lyonnais, who call their little boys and
girls "gones" and "fenottes" for example.
- Lyon was an early centre for printing books, and nurtured a
circle of 16th century poets.
- The Lumière
brothers invented cinema in the town in
1895. The Musée Lumière is there as a testimony, hosting many of
their first inventions.
- December 8 each year is marked by the Festival of Lights (la Fête des
lumières), a celebration of thanks to the Virgin Mary, who purportedly saved
the city from a deadly plague in the Middle
Ages. During the event, the local population places candles
(lumignons) at their windows and the city of Lyon
organizes impressive large-scale light shows onto the sides of
important Lyonnais monuments, such as the medieval Cathédrale
St-Jean.
- The church of Saint Francis of
Sales is famous for its large and unaltered Cavaillé-Coll pipe organ, attracting audiences from around the
world. Lyon also features a renowned opera house.
- Lyon is also the French capital of "trompe l'œil"-walls, a very ancient
tradition. Many are to be seen everywhere around the city. This old
tradition is now expending in a contemporary expression. See for
example Guillaume Bottazzi art work [407921]
.
- The Brothers of the
Sacred Heart, a Roman Catholic congregation that operates
schools in Europe and North America, was founded in Lyon in
1821.
- The
African
Museum of Lyon
is one of the oldest museums situated in
Lyon.
UNESCO World Heritage Site
The
Historic Site of Lyon was designated a UNESCO
World Heritage Site in 1998.In
their designation, UNESCO cited the "exceptional testimony to the
continuity of urban settlement over more than two millennia on a
site of great commercial and strategic significance." The specific
regions composing the Historic Site include:
- the Roman district and Fourvière;
- the Renaissance
district, Vieux-Lyon
- the silk district (slopes of Croix-Rousse), and
- the Presqu'île, which features architecture from the 12th
century to modern times.
Both Vieux-Lyon and the slopes of Croix-Rousse are known for their
narrow passageways (
traboules)
that pass through buildings and link streets on either side.
Gastronomy
For several centuries Lyon has been known as the French capital of
gastronomy, due, in part, to the
presence of many of France's finest chefs in the city and its
surroundings (e.g.
Paul Bocuse). This
reputation also comes from the fact that two of France's best known
wine-growing
regionsare located near Lyon: the
Beaujolaisto the North, and the
Côtes du Rhôneto the South.
Beaujolais wine is very popular in Lyon and remains the most common
table wine served with local dishes.
Lyon is the home of very typical and traditional restaurants: the
bouchons.
Bouchonsare usually convivial restaurants
serving local dishes, and local wines.
Lyon is famous for its morning snacks, the
mâchons, made
up of local
charcuterieand usually
accompanied by Beaujolais
red wine. Traditional
local dishes include
saucisson de Lyon(sausage),
andouillette,
coq au
vin,
esox quenelle,
gras
double(
tripecooked with
onions),
salade lyonnaise(lettuce with
bacon,
croutonsand a
poached egg),
marrons glacésand
cardoonau gratin.
Economy
The GDP of Lyon is 52 billion euros, and the city is the second
richest city after Paris.
Lyon and its region Rhône-Alpes represent one of the most
important economies in Europe and, according to the Loughborough
university, can be compared to Philadelphia
, Bombay
or Athens
concerning its international position.The city of Lyon is
working in partnerships to more easily enable the establishment of
new headquarters in the territory. (
ADERLY,
Chambre du
commerce et d'industrie,
Grand
Lyon...). According to the ECER-Banque Populaire, Lyon is the
14th favorite city in the
European
Unionconcerning the creation of companies and
investments.
Headquarters
Lyon is the headquarters of many companies like
Euronews,
Toupargel,
Lyon Airports,
BioMérieux,
LVL
Medical,
Voisin ,
CEGID,
Boiron,
Infogrames,
GL Events,
Alptis,
Compagnie Nationale
du Rhône ...
Business quarter
The specialization of some sectors of activities have the
consequence of creating several main business centers:
La Part-Dieu, located in the 3rd arrondissement is the second
biggest business district after La Défense
in Paris with its emblematic Tour du Crédit LyonnaisPencil
tower
and Oxygen
Tower.Cité
Internationale(International City), completely created by the
architect
Renzo Pianoand finished in
2006. This zone is located in the border of the
Parc de la tête d'orin the
6th arrondissement.
The
worldwide headquarters of Interpol
is located there.The quarter of the
Confluence, in the south of the historic centre
is a new pole of economical and cultural development. This zone is
located in the south of
Bellecourand the
Perracherailway station.
Tourism
The tourism industry is really beneficial to Lyon with one billion
euros in 2007 and 3.5 million hotel nights from foreigners in 2006.
Approximately 60% of tourists visit for business, with the rest for
leisure.
In January 2009, Lyon is in first place of
the hostels business in France
.The
main tourist festivals are the
Fête des lumièresalso known as
the festival of lights. The
Nuits de Fourvière, annual festival
in June and August. The
Biennale d'art contemporain. The
Nuits Sonores
Research
Laboratory P4 Jean Merieux
Lyon is
home to some of the most dangerous viruses in
the world (class 4) in the Jean Merieux laboratory of research,
like Ebola, Marburg
,Nipah, Hendra, Lassa...
Main sights
These are the main sights in Lyon.
Noteworthy sites
- Place Bellecour

- Tour métallique de Fourvière
(1894)
- Musée des beaux-arts de Lyon

- Hôtel-Dieu de Lyon
- Sainte Marie de La Tourette
monastery (1960) designed by Le Corbusier
- Saint-Exupéry International
Airport
(formerly Satolas
Airport, 1975), designed by Guillaume Gilbert.
- Opéra National de
Lyon, renovated in 1993 by Jean
Nouvel.
- Gare de Lyon Saint-Exupéry
(1994) by Santiago
Calatrava.
- Cité
Internationale (1998), designed by Renzo Piano. It is a group of buildings for
various functions.
- Cathédrale Saint-Jean

- Basilica of Notre-Dame
de Fourvière
.
- Basilica of St-Martin-d'Ainay
.
- The
church of St-Martin-d'Ainay
is one of the rare surviving Romanesque basilica-style churches
in Lyon.
- The
doorway of St.
Nizier's
(fifteenth century) was carved in the sixteenth
century by Philibert Delorme.
- La Mouche Cattle Market and Abbatoir (1914, 1928),
designed by Tony
Garnier.
- The Roman ruins on the hillside near the Fourviere Basilica,
and the accompanying Gallo-Roman Museum.
- The Medieval Quarter of town, with cobbled streets, shops, and
dining.
- Tour du Crédit Lyonnais

- Tour Oxygène
- Tour Incity
Parks and gardens
The garden was established in 1857 as a successor to earlier
botanical gardens dating to 1796, and now describes itself as
France's largest municipal botanical garden. Today it contains
about 15,000 plants, including 3500 plants of temperate regions,
760 species of
shrubs, a hundred species of
wild
roses, 750 varieties of historical roses,
200 varieties of
peoniesrecognized by the
Conservatoire Français des Collections Végétales
Spécialisées(CCVS), 1800 species of alpine plants, 50
varieties of
water lilies, and 6,000
species in its greenhouses.
The garden's greenhouses enclose a total of 6500 m² in area, and
include a central pavilion for tropical plants including
camelliasover a hundred years old; a
greenhouse-aquarium with Amazonian water lilies; a Dutch greenhouse
containing
carnivorous plants;
small greenhouses with
orchids; and small
cold greenhouses with
azaleas,
cactus, and so forth.
- Parc de la Tête d'Or
, (literally, Golden Head Park), in central Lyon is
the largest urban park in France
at 117
hectares. Located in the 6th arrondissement, it features a large lake on
which boating takes place during the summer months. Due to the
relatively small number of other parks in Lyon, it receives a huge
number of visitors over summer, and is a frequent destination for
joggers and cyclists. At the northern end of the park, there is a
small zoo, with giraffes, elephants, tigers and other animals.
There is also sporting equipment, such as a velodrome, boules
court, mini-golf, horse riding, and even a miniature train.
Colleges and universities
International primary and secondary level schools in Lyon
There are some international schools in Lyon, including:
Sport
Lyon is home to the
Ligue 1footballteam
Olympique Lyonnais, commonly known as
"Lyon" or "OL". The team has enjoyed unprecedented success
recently, winning seven consecutive national titles and
establishing themselves as France's premier football club. The
captain of the side,
Juninho
Pernambucanois one of several Brazilians at Lyon, and he has
received many awards while leading his team to unrivalled success.
The team
competes in the prestigious UEFA
Champions League and currently plays at the impressive Stade de
Gerland
, where the Danone
Nations Cup is held every year.The team is set to
move to a new stadium
in Décines-Charpieu
(in the eastern suburbs) in 2010, which will hold
61,556 people.Lyon also has a
rugby
unionteam,
Lyon OU, currently playing in
division 2,
Rugby Pro D2. In addition,
Lyon has a
rugby leagueside: Lyon
Villeurbanne Rhône XIII, or LVR XIII, play in the
French rugby league
championship. The club's current home ground is Stade Georges
Lyvet in Villeurbanne. Lyon is also home to the
Lyon Hockey Club, an
ice hockeyteam that competes in France's national
ice hockey league.
Finally, Villeurbanne also has a renowned
basketball team, ASVEL, who play at the Astroballe
arena in Cusset.
Transport
Air
The
Saint-Exupéry International
Airport
is located east of Lyon, and serves as a base for
domestic and international flights.With its in-house
train station (Gare de Lyon Saint-Exupéry
) the airport is also connected to the TGV network.
The
Lyon-Bron
Airport
is a smaller airport dedicated to General Aviation
(both private and commercial), located east of the city
centre.Having helipads, the facility hosts a
Gendarmerieand a
Sécurité Civile(civilian defence)
Base. This smaller airport used to be Lyon's international airport
before all the airline's activities got transferred to Lyon
Saint-Exupéry.
Rail
Lyon is
connected to the north (Lille
, Paris
, Brussels
, and in the future Amsterdam
) and the south (Marseille
, Montpellier
, and in the future Barcelona
, Turin
) by the
TGV.It was the first city to be connected to Paris by the
TGVin 1981.
Lyon has
two major railway stations: Lyon
Part-Dieu
, which was built to accommodate the
TGV and has become the principal railway station
for extra-regional trains; and Lyon
Perrache
, which is an older station that now
primarily serves regional rail services.In practice, many
trains, including TGVs, serve both stations.
Smaller railway
stations include Gorge de Loup, Vaise,
Vénissieux
, St-Paul and
Jean-Macé.
Road

Network of highways around Lyon
The City
is at the heart of a dense road network and is located at the
meeting point of several highways: A6 (to Paris
), A7 (to Marseille
), A42 (to Geneve
), A43 (to Grenoble
).The city is now bypassed by the
A46.
Intercity coach
Lyon is served by the
Eurolinesintercity
coach organisation. Its Lyon terminal is located at the city's
Perracherailway station, which serves as an intermodal
transportation hub that also includes tramways, local and regional
trains and busses, the terminus of metro line A, the bicycle
service Vélo'v, taxis, and high-speed TGV trains.
Public transport

public transport map

Public bicycle service
Vélo'v
The
TCL(French:
Transports en Commun Lyonnais), Lyon's public transit
system, consisting of metro, buses and tramways, serves 62 communes
of the Lyon agglomeration. The subway network has 4 lines ( ), 39
stations and runs with a frequency of up to a train every 2
minutes. The bus network consists of normal
buses,
trolleybusesand coaches
for areas outside the centre.
There are four tram
lines since April 2009: T1 from Montrochet in the south to
IUT-Feyssine in the north, Tram T2 from Perrache
railway station in the southwest to Saint-Priest in the southeast, Tram T3 from
Part-Dieu
to Meyzieu
, and Tram T4 from Mendès-France to
Feyzin.There are also two funicular lines from Vieux Lyon
to Saint-Just and Fourvière
.Despite the existence of several systems and
operators the ticketing is unified through a unique system.
The
REALproject
intends on promoting and eventually increasing, the usage of public
transport means by commuters.
Rhônexpress(formerly The LESLYS -
Liaison
Expres
SLYon
Saint-Exupéry) will provide the metropolis with a
light train shuttle ("Tram-Train") connecting the airport to the
city's downtown.
Rhônexpress (a consortium created for this
purpose by major French construction companies) was awarded the
operation of this rail link by the prime owner of the
infrastructure (Département du Rhône
) through a PPP (Public-Private-Partnership)
vehicle.
The public transit system is complemented by
Vélo'v, a bicycle network providing a low
cost and convenient bicycle hire service where bicycles can be
hired and dropped off at any of 340 stations throughout the city.
Borrowing a bicycle for less than 30 minutes is free.
International attraction
The unusual project
Lyon Dubai City,
a reproduction of some districts of Lyon in Dubai, is a major point
for the tourism in Lyon.
People from Lyon
Movies in Lyon
- 1895: 14 vues Lumière filmées à Lyon entre 1895 et
1900 by Auguste and
Louis Lumière
- 1946: Un revenant by
Christian-Jaque, with Louis Jouvet, Gaby Morlay, François Périer, Marguerite
Moreno, Ludmilla Tchérina,
Louis Seigner
- 1953: Thérèse
Raquin, by Marcel Carné,
with Simone Signoret, Raf Vallone and Jacques Duby
- 1956: Un condamné à mort s'est
échappé by Robert
Bresson
- 1966: Le Voyage du père by Denys de La Patellière
- 1969: L'Armée des
ombres, by Jean-Pierre
Melville
- 1974: L'Horloger de
Saint-Paul by Bertrand
Tavernier
- 1974: Verdict by André
Cayatte
- 1980: Une semaine de
vacances by Bertrand Tavernier
- 1981: Le Voyage à Lyon by Claudia von Aleman
- 1985: Parole de flic by José Pinheiro with Alain Delon
- 1993: Un crime by Jacques
Deray
- 1994: Lucie Aubrac
by Claude Berri
- 1996: Les Voleurs by André Téchiné
- 1998: Le Gone du
Chaâba by Christophe Ruggia, from the book by Azouz Begag
- 2000: Lyon police spéciale by Bertrand Arthuys
- 2000: Tout va bien, on s'en va by Claude
Mouriéras
- 2000: Une affaire de
goût by Bernard Rapp
- 2002: Inventaire filmé des rues de la Croix-Rousse à
Lyon by Gérard Courant
- 2002: Quand tu descendras du ciel by Éric Guirado
- 2003: Le Coût de la vie by Philippe Le Guay
- 2004: Vaada by Satish Kaushik, film by Bollywood
- 2005: Destination Fourvière by Gérard Courant
- 2007: Après Lui by Gaël
Morel
- 2007: Détrompez-vous by Bruno Dega
- 2007: J'veux pas que tu t'en ailles by Bernard
Jeanjean
- 2007: La fille coupée en deux by Claude Chabrol
- 2008: Les Liens du sang by Jacques Maillot
- 2009: The
International by Tom Tykwer
- 2009: Je te mangerais
by Sophie Laloy
International relations
Twin towns — Sister cities
Lyon is
twinnedwith:
Cultural references
- The city figures in the play The Lyons Mail by
Charles Reade, which was adapted into
a film in 1931.
- Lyon in the year 1656 is described by Samuel Chappuzeau in his book Lyon
dans son lustre.
- A historical article about a 19th century flood inspired the 1979 song "The Flood at Lyons" by
the rock band Renaissance.
- In the Marillion song "Bitter Suite"
from Misplaced
Childhood there is a reference to Lyon. The line is: "The
sky was bible black in Lyons, when I met the Magdalene."
- Morrissey, former singer with The Smiths, briefly mentions Lyon in the 2006
song "Christian Dior," the B-side to "In The Future When All's
Well".
- Lyon is the name of a multi-player level in the real-time
strategy game Company of
Heroes.
- In the video game Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of
Liberty, the character Revolver
Ocelot has gone through an arm transplant in Lyon, as revealed
in one of the dialogs.
The lion is a common sight in Lyon:File:Lyon lion door knocker.jpg
|A
liondoor
knockerin LyonFile:Lyon lion maison des avocats.jpg |The lion
at Maison des Avocats
File:Lyon lion Parc de la Tête d'Or.jpg |A
real lion in the Parc de la Tête d'Or
File:Lyon lions Gare Part-Dieu.jpg |Sculpture
of lions at the Gare Part-DieuFile:Blason ville fr Lyon (Rhone).svg
|The lion on the seal of Lyon
See also
Other

Lyon centre, view to Fourvière Hill
from Presqu'île near Place Bellecour
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 A view of one of the many gardens in
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 The Roman-era Theatre on the
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