Vieux Lyon
Guide
Photo: Karldupart · CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
FreeWalkAllow 1–2 hPut together by AI from open data
What you'll see
Cobbled lanes along the foot of Fourvière hill lined with tall ochre, pink and orange houses, carved doorways, spiral stair towers in hidden courtyards and small squares of café tables.
A brief history
Silk merchants and bankers from Italy and Germany built most of these houses in the 1500s; the quarter was saved from a planned motorway in the 1960s and became France's first protected historic district.
Tips
- Best time
- Morning, before the day crowds
- Cost
- Free
- Allow
- 1–2 h
- Free days
- Always free
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Good to know
- Area
- Vieux Lyon: The Renaissance old town along the Saône, with its traboules and the cathedral: atmospheric, lively at night, with a hostel or two on the slope.
- Access
- Partly step-free
- Indoors or out
- Outdoors
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