Lyons sits on two rivers, the Rhône (to the East) and the Saône (to the West) and is the third largest city in France
View of Lyon from Fourvière Hill
Église Saint-George on the banks of the Saône
Place des Jacobins
Lyon is considered by many (well, Lyonnais anyway) to be the gastronomic capital of France
Bouchons are a type of restaurant found only in Lyon and serving Lyonnais cuisine (traditional duck, pork and offal dishes)
Rue des Marronniers, home to several bouchons
One of the non-edible local specialties is painted walls – there are around 100 masterpieces dotted around Lyon
La Fresque des Lyonnais – an impressive seven storey mural painted on the side of a building featuring famous people born in Lyon
The mural painter busy at work
Roman Emperor Claudius
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry with his yellow haired creation, Le Petit Prince
The chef Paul Bocuse is Lyon’s kitchen god
The Mur des Canuts, a colourful and realistic mural depicting the history and inhabitants of the Croix-Rousse district
The long series of staircases up the Fourvière Hill to the Basilica
Fourvière Basilica from the river Saône
Inside the Basilica, the floor, walls and ceilings were lavishly decorated with modern Byzantine style mosaics
The pillars were embellished with carved white marble bases
The Loyass Cemetery was closed for the day but we managed to peek through the gates
The Hotel de Ville (City Hall) on Place des Terreaux
The fountain in the centre of the Place des Terreaux - the female represents France and the horses, the four rivers of France – Seine, Loire, Rhône and Garonne
The classical facade of the Opera house was totally at odds with monstrous glass and steel dome above it
One of the colourful, narrow cobblestone streets in the Vieux Lyon (Old Lyon) District
A Renaissance courtyard that we found at the end of a traboule – long corridor linking 2 streets through a building, used by silk merchants to transport their wares during inclement weather
King Louis XIV on horseback in the middle of Place Bellecour, one of the largest public squares in Europe
Cathédrale Saint-Jean-Baptiste
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The Basilica of Saint Martin d’Ainay
Inside were some beautiful mosaics, stained glass windows and some monumental marble pillars taken from an earlier church on Fourvière Hill
Temple du Change, a former stock exchange converted to a Protestant church
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