Yahoo Web Search

Search results

  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › LyonLyon - Wikipedia

    Lyon [c] ( Franco-Provençal: Liyon ), formerly spelled in English as Lyons, [d] is the third-largest city of France. [e] It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, 391 km (243 mi) southeast of Paris, 278 km (173 mi) north of Marseille, 113 km (70 mi) southwest of Geneva, 58 km (36 mi ...

    • Talk

      Cities portal; This article is within the scope of...

    • Vieux Lyon

      Saint-Jean quarter, part of the Vieux Lyon, with the...

    • French Alps

      The French Alps (French: Alpes françaises) are the portions...

  2. fr.wikipedia.org › wiki › LyonLyon — Wikipédia

    Lyon: En haut, Notre-Dame de Fourvière et la place des Terreaux.Au centre, le Vieux Lyon, le parc de la Tête-d'Or et le quartier de la Confluence.En bas, le pont Lafayette sur le Rhône et les tours du quartier de la Part-Dieu.

  3. 6 days ago · Lyon, capital of both the Rhône département and the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes région, east-central France, set on a hilly site at the confluence of the Rhône and Saône rivers. It is the third largest city in France, after Paris and Marseille.

    • The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
    • Lyon wikipedia1
    • Lyon wikipedia2
    • Lyon wikipedia3
    • Lyon wikipedia4
  4. Lyon. Location of Lyon in France. Place Du Griffon, Lyon, France. Lyon ( Arpitan: Liyon) is a city in the southeast of France. It is the third-largest city in the country (behind Paris and Marseille ), with about 513,000 people living there in 2015. It is the second largest metropolis, or metro area, in France (behind only that of Paris), with ...

  5. Lyon is the capital of the French administrative region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. A city of half a million, Lyon alone is the country's third-largest city, but its metropolitan area is only second in population to Paris. Lyon is mostly known as the gastronomic epicentre of France, with one of the highest concentrations of restaurants per capita ...

  6. Jan 4, 2023 · Lyon, a UNESCO world heritage site with 2000 years of history. Inspiration. ©. Reading time: 2 min Published on 4 January 2023, updated on 15 April 2024. France’s second largest city, Lyon, is located in the heart of Europe, between Paris and the Mediterranean coast and close to the Alps.

  7. People also ask

  1. People also search for