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31 reviews 10 travel blogs 9 photos Attraction Type:
Town center/square/plaza
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How it ends or rather how it begins...
... . With DeVotchka singing sweetly to me in my headphones there could have been no better moment to discover Place Bellecour. Almost in the heart of Lyon I stumbled upon the vast space with its old statues and bustling pedestrians. Everything was just so ...
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Escargots et cuisses de la grenouille pour 11
... . From the hotel we headed off to the old part of Lyon. Past all the shops and the giant Ferris wheel in Place Bellecour, and the Mercie Marie Church, to the heart of the restaurant part of town. The group disbanded at this point, ...
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Speaking French Badly
... de Lyon and drank a Communard (the local Beaujoulais wine with cassis liqueur) Tuesday - Explored the centre of town, Place Bellecour and Vieux Lyon (the 'old town' - wonderful and the Europe of my imagination) with my classmates Sayaka, Alec and Julius, ...
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Bookends
... an Eiffel Tower look-a-like which is really a radio antennae. Our wanderings also took us to the main city square, Place Bellecour, the pedestrian shopping district on rue de la Republique and we stopped into France’s Printemps department store to ...
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Princess de Provence embarkation
... of stairs to wrassle our luggage down. We dumped our luggage, had a nice chat with the staff at reception, and headed into Place Bellecour for lunch at the Kiosque inh the middle of the place. We got 2 nice big salad Nicoise and water. ...
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Touring Lyon
... buck. Having had a large lunch, we really didn't want a big dinner, so we found some wonderful sandwiches at a kiosk on Place Bellecour. I don't know if it was such a light dinner. Ed's was about 14" long with a hot dog that ...
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The Gastronomical Capital
... ,Saint Bonaventure, Saint Nizier and Saint Paul; many big open squares lined by cafes and shops and usually with fountains and trees: Place Bellecour, Place des Célestins, Place des Jacobins, Place de la Republique, and also the Hotel de Ville, Opéra ...
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Lyon Lyon and my love
... Wide Shut. (''It haunt my head... haunt my head!!'') She! After the movie I went for a walk in town. I visist Place Bellecour again and followed the Rhône until the Opera building which have an interesting architecture. After that, I reached the ...
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There is nothing funny about funiculars
... had a croissant and espresso on the pedestrian mall. Then I walked around for a bit, to the spacious but starkly asphalted Place Bellecour (they're working on adding some more trees and grass, I hear). I crossed the river and had an excellent ...
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1st destination - Lyon
... in France and a long established business center, yet it possesses plenty of Old World attractions, including place Bellecour and the Amphitheatre of the Three Gauls. Lyon is also said to have "more restaurants per square metre than any place on earth." ...
Place Bellecour Map
- The Presqu'île
- Musee des Tissus et des Arts Decoratif
- Musée des Automates EMA
- Cathedral Saint Jean Baptiste
- Musee Gadagne Histoire de Lyon & Marionnettes du Monde
- Theatres Romains de Fourviere
- Musee de l'Imprimerie de Lyon
- Basilique Notre Dame de Fourviere
- Le Hot Club
- Museum of Gallo-Roman Civilization (Musée de la Civilisation Gallo-Romaine)
- Museum of the Resistance (Centre d' Histoire de la Resistance et de la Deportation)
- Musee des Beaux-Arts
- Rue de la Republique
- Croix-Rousse
- Fourvière Hill
- Amphitheater of the Three Gauls (Amphitheatre des Trois Gaules)
- Maison des Avocats
- Tete d'Or
- Maison des Canuts
- Museum d'Histoire Naturelle