enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Vieux Lyon - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vieux_Lyon

   Vieux Lyon ([vjø ljɔ̃], English: Old Lyon) is the largest Renaissance district of Lyon. In 1964, Vieux-Lyon, the city's oldest district, became the first site in France to be protected under the Malraux law to protect France's cultural sites. Covering an area of 424 hectares between the Fourvière hill and the river Saône, [1] it is one of ...

3. Lyon - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyon

   Lyon [c] is the third-most populous city of France, at the centre of its second-largest urban area.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, Switzerland, 58 km (36 mi) northeast of Saint-Étienne.

4. Place Bellecour - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Place_Bellecour

   Coordinates: 45°45′27″N 4°49′56″E. Equestrian statue of King Louis XIV on Place Bellecour. Place Bellecour (French pronunciation: [plas bɛlkuʁ]) is a large square in the centre of Lyon, France, to the north of the Ainay district. Measuring 312 m by 200 m (6.2 ha or 15 acres), [1] it is one of the largest open squares (without any ...

5. Place des Jacobins - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Place_des_Jacobins

   Place des Jacobins, Lyon. The Place des Jacobins is a square located in the 2nd arrondissement of Lyon. It was created in 1556 and a fountain was added in 1856. The square belongs to the zone classified as World Heritage Site by UNESCO. According to Jean Pelletier, this square is one of the most famous in Lyon, because of its location in the ...

6. Lugdunum - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lugdunum

   Lugdunum (also spelled Lugudunum, Latin: [ɫʊɡ(ʊ)ˈduːnʊ̃ː]; [1] [failed verification] [2] modern Lyon, France) was an important Roman city in Gaul, established on the current site of Lyon. The Roman city was founded in 43 BC by Lucius Munatius Plancus, but continued an existing Gallic settlement with a likely population of several ...

7. Place des Terreaux - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Place_des_Terreaux

   The Place des Terreaux with the Hôtel de Ville and Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon after the redevelopment of the square in the 1990s by Daniel Buren and Christian Drevet. The Place des Terreaux is a square located in the centre of Lyon, France, on the Presqu'île between the Rhône and the Saône rivers, at the foot of the hill of La Croix-Rousse in the 1st arrondissement.