Lyon is the third city in size of France (after Paris and Marseilles) and the second metropolitan area. It is located in the confluence of the rivers the Rhone and Saona.
Lyon is the central locality of the urban community of Grand Lyon.
Historically the city is the capital of the province of Lyonnais (Lyonesado) that corresponds to the present departments of the Rhone and Loira. The lyonesa region corresponds with the territories organized around this city (of 50 to 100 km of radio). The Rhone-Alps region, of which Lyon is the administrative capital, is todavá greater than the previous one.
Without a doubt it is the door to the snow-covered French Alps, Lyon is ideal to prove the shining nights of lights and celebrations of the alpine zone of après-ski.
The spotted streets and the modern peatonales zones of the city keep a treasure from architectonic wonders: from the Romanesque one to the Renaissance, the gothic one to the baroque one. Take advantage of the views from the basilica century XIX in the summit the Fourvière, the Hill of the Orador, or from funicular in the middle of the Alps and observe how both rivers, the Rhone and the Saona, wind by the city.
Other places of interest are the quarter of the Gestapo and the Center of History of the Resistance and the Deportation, in 14 bird Berthelot (04 7872 2311), where it can know history the French resistance of Lyon during the occupation.