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city guide","hw_hub_city_hero_h1":"Things To Do In Lyon","hw_hub_city_hero_intro":"France's food capital, a Roman city on two rivers, and a Renaissance old town threaded with secret passageways \u2014 at roughly half the price of Paris.","hw_hub_city_hero_image":"1304153","hw_hub_city_hero_overlay":"light","hw_hub_city_hero_cta":"Where to stay | #areas\r\nWhat it costs | #money","hw_hub_city_live_stats":"1","hw_hub_city_stats":"43 BC | Founded as the Roman colony of Lugdunum\r\n400+ | Traboules, the covered passageways through buildings\r\n2 | Rivers, meeting at the tip of the peninsula","hw_hub_city_intro_title":"The best-value big city in France, and it knows about food","hw_hub_city_intro_body":"Lyon sits where the Rh\u00f4ne and the Sa\u00f4ne meet, with a Roman hill on one side, a Renaissance quarter on the other and a long peninsula between them.\r\n\r\nIt was founded in 43 BC as Lugdunum and became the capital of Roman Gaul, and the two amphitheatres on Fourvi\u00e8re hill are still in use for summer concerts.\r\n\r\nVieux Lyon, the Renaissance quarter, is one of the largest in Europe and is laced with traboules \u2014 covered passageways cutting through buildings and courtyards, built for silk workers moving cloth in the rain and later used by the Resistance. Many are still open to the public and unmarked.\r\n\r\nThe food reputation is real and specific. The bouchon is the local institution: small, loud, cheap and serving offal-heavy Lyonnais cooking that is not for everyone but should be tried once.\r\n\r\nTwo or three days, and everything costs noticeably less than Paris.","hw_hub_city_facts":"Getting in | TGV from Paris 2 hours, \u20ac30\u201390. Airport tram Rh\u00f4nexpress 30 min, about \u20ac17\r\nGetting around | Metro, tram and funicular on one ticket, about \u20ac2. Walkable centre\r\nCurrency | Euro\r\nTraboules | Free, often unmarked, and mostly in Vieux Lyon and Croix-Rousse. Residents live there \u2014 go quietly\r\nBouchons | Certified ones carry a plaque. A meal runs \u20ac22\u201332\r\nTipping | Service is included. Rounding up is plenty","hw_hub_city_areas_title":"Where to stay","hw_hub_city_areas_intro":"Two rivers, a peninsula and two hills, all within half an hour on foot.","hw_hub_city_areas_map":"1","hw_hub_city_areas_zoom":"13","hw_hub_city_hostels_pins":"1","hw_hub_city_areas_live":"","hw_hub_city_areas":"Presqu'\u00eele | First-timers | The peninsula between the rivers: squares, shops, restaurants and most transport. | 45.7620 | 4.8340 |  | \nVieux Lyon | Renaissance and traboules | Across the Sa\u00f4ne under Fourvi\u00e8re: cobbled streets, the traboules and the bouchons aimed at visitors. | 45.7620 | 4.8270 |  | \nCroix-Rousse | Local and characterful | The silk workers' hill north: markets, quieter traboules, steep streets and a genuine neighbourhood feel. | 45.7740 | 4.8320 |  | \nPart-Dieu and the 3rd | Value and transport | East across the Rh\u00f4ne: the main TGV station, cheaper beds and a short tram into the centre. | 45.7600 | 4.8570 |  | ","hw_hub_city_itin_title":"How long have you got?","hw_hub_city_itin_intro":"The routes we would walk, in the order we would walk them.","hw_hub_city_itin":"","hw_hub_city_do_title":"Things to do in Lyon","hw_hub_city_do_body":"Walk the traboules. There are said to be more than four hundred, most unmarked, cutting through buildings and courtyards in Vieux Lyon and Croix-Rousse. The best-known, the Tour Rose passage and the long traboule at 54 rue Saint-Jean, are free \u2014 but people live in these buildings, so go quietly and during the day.\r\n\r\nTake the funicular up Fourvi\u00e8re. At the top sit two Roman theatres, the basilica and the best view over the city and, on a clear day, the Alps. The Gallo-Roman museum is built into the hillside beside the theatres.\r\n\r\nEat in a bouchon. Certified ones carry a plaque; expect quenelles, andouillette, pork in several forms and a jug of C\u00f4tes du Rh\u00f4ne, at \u20ac22 to \u20ac32.\r\n\r\nThe Mus\u00e9e des Confluences, at the tip of the peninsula where the rivers meet, is a deconstructivist building housing a genuinely odd and good natural history and anthropology collection, about \u20ac9.\r\n\r\nThe Resistance and Deportation museum is sober, important and about \u20ac8.","hw_hub_city_do_points":"The traboules | Free, mostly unmarked. Go quietly \u2014 people live there\r\nFourvi\u00e8re and the Roman theatres | Funicular up, and the view to the Alps\r\nA bouchon dinner | \u20ac22\u201332, and unlike eating anywhere else in France\r\nMus\u00e9e des Confluences | About \u20ac9, and worth it for the building alone","hw_hub_city_do_tag":"things-to-do","hw_hub_city_do_more":"All things to do in Lyon","hw_hub_city_free_title":"Free things to do in Lyon","hw_hub_city_free_body":"The traboules are free, and finding them without a map is half the pleasure \u2014 look for unmarked doors standing open in Vieux Lyon and Croix-Rousse.\r\n\r\nThe Roman theatres on Fourvi\u00e8re are free to walk into outside performance days, and the basilica above them costs nothing.\r\n\r\nParc de la T\u00eate d'Or is one of the largest urban parks in France, with a free zoo, a botanical garden and a lake.\r\n\r\nThe Croix-Rousse murals, including the Mur des Canuts \u2014 one of the largest painted walls in Europe \u2014 are free and scattered across the city.\r\n\r\nBoth riverbanks have been rebuilt as walking and cycling paths, and the Rh\u00f4ne bank in summer is where Lyon drinks and sits.","hw_hub_city_free_points":"The traboules | Free, and better found than looked up\r\nRoman theatres | Free to walk into on non-performance days\r\nParc de la T\u00eate d'Or | Free, with a free zoo inside it\r\nThe painted walls | Mur des Canuts among the largest in Europe","hw_hub_city_free_tag":"free-things-to-do","hw_hub_city_free_more":"All free things to do in Lyon","hw_hub_city_food_title":"Eating and drinking in Lyon","hw_hub_city_food_body":"The city's claim to be France's food capital is old, loudly made, and broadly accepted.\r\n\r\nThe bouchon is the institution: small, wood-panelled, noisy, and serving Lyonnais cooking that leans heavily on offal and pork. Quenelles, andouillette, salade lyonnaise, and a pot of Beaujolais. A meal runs \u20ac22 to \u20ac32 and the certified ones carry a plaque, which matters because the imitations cluster in Vieux Lyon.\r\n\r\nLes Halles Paul Bocuse is the covered market \u2014 expensive to shop in, good for a counter lunch at \u20ac12 to \u20ac20.\r\n\r\nThe lunch formule is the saving here as everywhere in France, at \u20ac14 to \u20ac20.\r\n\r\nWine is the other advantage: Beaujolais to the north and the northern Rh\u00f4ne to the south, so a decent glass is \u20ac4 to \u20ac6.","hw_hub_city_food_points":"A certified bouchon | \u20ac22\u201332. Look for the plaque\r\nLunch formule | \u20ac14\u201320\r\nLes Halles | Counter lunch at \u20ac12\u201320\r\nWine | Beaujolais and Rh\u00f4ne either side. A glass \u20ac4\u20136","hw_hub_city_food_tag":"food","hw_hub_city_food_more":"All food guides for Lyon","hw_hub_city_nightlife_title":"Going out in Lyon","hw_hub_city_nightlife_body":"Student-heavy and river-led. The p\u00e9niches \u2014 barges moored along the Rh\u00f4ne \u2014 are bars and clubs, and they are where the summer nights are.\r\n\r\nThe Pentes de la Croix-Rousse, the slopes below the hill, have the best bar concentration and the youngest crowd.\r\n\r\nVieux Lyon is busier with visitors and pricier for what it is.\r\n\r\nA beer is \u20ac4 to \u20ac7 and cocktails \u20ac9 to \u20ac13, clearly below Paris.\r\n\r\nLyon has a large student population and term time from September to June is when it shows. The metro runs to around midnight, later at weekends.","hw_hub_city_nightlife_points":"The p\u00e9niches | Barge bars along the Rh\u00f4ne, and the summer default\r\nPentes de la Croix-Rousse | The best bars and the youngest crowd\r\nCheaper than Paris | Beer \u20ac4\u20137, cocktails \u20ac9\u201313\r\nMetro to about midnight | Later at weekends","hw_hub_city_nightlife_tag":"nightlife","hw_hub_city_nightlife_more":"All nightlife guides for Lyon","hw_hub_city_transport_title":"Getting around Lyon","hw_hub_city_transport_body":"One ticket at about \u20ac2 covers metro, tram, bus and the two funiculars up Fourvi\u00e8re, which is worth knowing before you walk up the hill.\r\n\r\nThe centre is walkable and the peninsula is about twenty-five minutes end to end.\r\n\r\nPart-Dieu is the main TGV station and Perrache the second \u2014 check which one your train uses, as they are a tram ride apart and people get this wrong.\r\n\r\nParis is two hours by TGV at \u20ac30 to \u20ac90 depending on how far ahead you book. Marseille is an hour and forty, Geneva under two hours.\r\n\r\nThe airport is 30 minutes on the Rh\u00f4nexpress tram for about \u20ac17, which is steep for the distance and the only direct option.\r\n\r\nV\u00e9lo'v bike hire is cheap and the riverbank paths are flat, though the two hills are not.","hw_hub_city_transport_points":"One ticket, about \u20ac2 | Covers the funiculars up Fourvi\u00e8re too\r\nTwo TGV stations | Part-Dieu and Perrache. Check which one\r\nParis | Two hours by TGV, \u20ac30\u201390\r\nAirport tram | 30 minutes, about \u20ac17","hw_hub_city_transport_tag":"transport","hw_hub_city_transport_more":"All transport guides for Lyon","hw_hub_city_money_title":"What Lyon costs","hw_hub_city_money_body":"Roughly half Paris for beds and noticeably less for everything else. Dorms are \u20ac20 to \u20ac35, a lunch formule \u20ac14 to \u20ac20, and a beer \u20ac4 to \u20ac7.\r\n\r\nA day is \u20ac45 to \u20ac85.\r\n\r\nThe traboules, the Roman theatres, the parks and the painted walls are free, and the museums are cheap \u2014 the Confluences is about \u20ac9 and the Resistance museum about \u20ac8.\r\n\r\nA bouchon dinner at \u20ac22 to \u20ac32 is the one thing worth spending on, and it is the reason a lot of people come.\r\n\r\nTGV fares to Paris and Marseille drop sharply when booked weeks ahead.","hw_hub_city_money_points":"Dorm bed | \u20ac20\u201335\r\nA day, all in | \u20ac45\u201385\r\nMuseums are cheap | Confluences about \u20ac9, Resistance about \u20ac8\r\nSpend it on a bouchon | \u20ac22\u201332, and the point of the city","hw_hub_city_money_tag":"budget","hw_hub_city_money_more":"All budget guides for Lyon","hw_hub_city_safety_title":"Staying safe in Lyon","hw_hub_city_safety_body":"Lyon is a safe city and the crime affecting visitors is petty theft.\r\n\r\nPickpocketing happens around Part-Dieu station, on the metro and in the crowded parts of Vieux Lyon.\r\n\r\nThe area immediately around Part-Dieu and parts of Guilloti\u00e8re are rougher late at night without being dangerous.\r\n\r\nThe traboules are private property that the city has negotiated public access to. People live there \u2014 entering after dark, making noise or blocking courtyards is how access gets withdrawn.\r\n\r\nThe Rh\u00f4ne and Sa\u00f4ne are fast, cold and have steep embankments, and the riverbank bars sit directly beside the water. Emergency number is 112.","hw_hub_city_safety_points":"Pickpockets | Part-Dieu, the metro and busy parts of Vieux Lyon\r\nTraboules are homes | Daytime, quietly, and never after dark\r\nThe rivers | Fast, cold, steep banks, and bars right beside them\r\nEmergency | 112","hw_hub_city_safety_tag":"safety","hw_hub_city_safety_more":"All safety guides for Lyon","hw_hub_city_trips_title":"Day trips from Lyon","hw_hub_city_trips_intro":"Two wine regions, a medieval town and the Alps within reach.","hw_hub_city_trips":"P\u00e9rouges | 1 hour | Train and bus, about \u20ac10 | A walled medieval hill village of cobbles and stone houses, almost entirely intact. |  | 1304293\nAnnecy | 2 hours | Train, \u20ac20\u201335 | A canal town on an alpine lake with the clearest water in Europe. |  | 1304294\nGrenoble | 1.5 hours | Train, \u20ac15\u201325 | A university city ringed by mountains, with a cable car of glass bubbles up to the Bastille fort. |  | 1304295","hw_hub_city_trips_tag":"day-trips","hw_hub_city_trips_more":"All day trips from Lyon","hw_hub_city_season_title":"When to go","hw_hub_city_season_intro":"May, June and September. December for the F\u00eate des Lumi\u00e8res, which is extraordinary and packed.","hw_hub_city_season_note":"Average highs. August is the one to be careful with \u2014 a lot of bouchons close for the month, which removes the main reason to be here.","hw_hub_city_season_rows":"January | 7 | 2 | Cold and grey. Cheapest beds and warm bouchons\r\nFebruary | 9 | 2 | Still grey and quiet\r\nMarch | 13 | 3 | Improving. The riverbanks reopen\r\nApril | 17 | 4 | Good. Parks and terraces starting\r\nMay | 21 | 5 | Excellent. Long evenings and the p\u00e9niches open\r\nJune | 25 | 5 | The best month. Roman theatre concerts begin\r\nJuly | 28 | 4 | Hot. Nuits de Fourvi\u00e8re in the Roman theatres\r\nAugust | 28 | 3 | Hot and half-closed. Many bouchons shut for the month\r\nSeptember | 23 | 5 | Superb. The city comes back and the weather holds\r\nOctober | 18 | 4 | Autumn, good value, Beaujolais harvest\r\nNovember | 11 | 3 | Grey and wet. Beaujolais Nouveau on the third Thursday\r\nDecember | 8 | 5 | F\u00eate des Lumi\u00e8res for four nights. Book months ahead","hw_hub_city_events_title":"What is on while you are there","hw_hub_city_events_intro":"Four nights in December when the whole city is lit by projections.","hw_hub_city_events_source":"api","hw_hub_city_events_count":"8","hw_hub_city_events_cache":"24","hw_hub_city_events_cta_label":"All events in Lyon","hw_hub_city_events_cta_url":"https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/events\/europe\/france\/lyon\/","hw_hub_city_events":"F\u00eate des Lumi\u00e8res | Early December, four nights | Citywide | Light installations and projections across the whole city, drawing well over a million people. Free, and every bed books out months ahead. |  | \nNuits de Fourvi\u00e8re | June to July | Roman theatres | Music and theatre in the two Roman amphitheatres on the hill, across two months. |  | \nBeaujolais Nouveau | Third Thursday of November | Citywide and Beaujolais | The new vintage released at midnight, celebrated hard in a city an hour from where it is made. |  | \nNuits Sonores | May | Citywide | A large electronic music festival using industrial and unusual venues. |  | \nAugust closures | August | Citywide | Many bouchons and independent restaurants close for the month. Check before planning around one. |  | ","hw_hub_city_budget_title":"What your trip will cost","hw_hub_city_budget_intro":"Pick how you travel. Per person per night, in euros.","hw_hub_city_budget_note":"The food line assumes a lunch formule and one bouchon dinner across a couple of days. The traboules and theatres cost nothing.","hw_hub_city_budget_rows":"Shoestring | 20 | 15 | 4 | 4\r\nMiddle of the road | 34 | 32 | 6 | 18\r\nComfortable | 62 | 55 | 9 | 35","hw_hub_city_budget_currency":"\u20ac","hw_hub_city_hostels_title":"Where to stay in Lyon","hw_hub_city_hostels_intro":"A decent scene on the peninsula and in Vieux Lyon, at well below Paris prices except in December. Live from Hostelworld.","hw_hub_city_hostels_cta_label":"All hostels in Lyon","hw_hub_city_hostels_cta_url":"https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/hostels\/europe\/france\/lyon\/","hw_hub_city_hostels_source":"api","hw_hub_city_hostels_count":"12","hw_hub_city_hostels_cache":"12","hw_hub_city_picks":"Best for solo travellers |  |  | \nBest for a party |  |  | \nQuietest |  |  | ","hw_hub_city_hostels":"","hw_hub_city_faq_title":"Lyon travel questions","hw_hub_city_faq_note":"The ones we get asked most.","hw_hub_city_faqs":"What is a traboule? | A covered passageway cutting through a building and its courtyards, built so silk workers could move cloth without getting it wet and later used by the Resistance. There are said to be more than four hundred, mostly in Vieux Lyon and Croix-Rousse, most unmarked and free to walk through. People live in these buildings, so go during the day and go quietly.\r\nWhat is a bouchon? | A small, loud, traditional Lyonnais restaurant serving offal-heavy local cooking \u2014 quenelles, andouillette, pork in several forms \u2014 for \u20ac22 to \u20ac32. Certified ones carry a plaque, which is worth checking because Vieux Lyon is full of imitations.\r\nIs Lyon cheaper than Paris? | Considerably. Dorms \u20ac20 to \u20ac35 against \u20ac30 to \u20ac55, beer \u20ac4 to \u20ac7, and museums at \u20ac8 to \u20ac9 where Paris charges \u20ac16 to \u20ac22. A day here runs \u20ac45 to \u20ac85.\r\nHow long do I need? | Two or three days. Vieux Lyon and the traboules take a day, Fourvi\u00e8re and the Roman theatres half of one, and the Confluences museum and Croix-Rousse fill the rest.\r\nWhen is the F\u00eate des Lumi\u00e8res? | Early December, over four nights, when the entire city is lit with projections and installations. It is free, it draws well over a million people, and beds book out months ahead at much higher prices.\r\nShould I avoid August? | Be careful with it. A lot of bouchons and independent restaurants close for the month, which removes the main reason to come. It is also the hottest time, at around 28\u00b0C.\r\nWhich station do I arrive at? | Part-Dieu is the main TGV station and Perrache the second, and they are a tram ride apart. Check your ticket \u2014 people get this wrong regularly.","hw_hub_city_cta_title":"Say yes to hostels, meet the world","hw_hub_city_cta_body":"Compare Lyon hostels \u2014 live prices, real reviews and free cancellation on most bookings. 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