Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #12 in Lyon, France

The Notre-Dame-de-l'Annonciation church is a church dedicated to Catholic worship located on Place de Paris, opposite the Vaise train station, in the 9th arrondissement of Lyon, of which it is a "real visual signal".

Wikipedia: Église Notre Dame de l'Annonciation (Lyon) (FR)

The granary of abundance is a former granary in the city of Lyon, in the Rhône department of France.

Wikipedia: Grenier d'abondance (FR), Website

The Fort Saint-Jean is located in the 1st arrondissement of Lyon and part of the first fort belt of Lyon, which includes Fort de Loyasse, and the now-demolished Fort Duchère and Fort de Caluire.

Wikipedia: Fort Saint-Jean (Lyon) (EN)

The parc de la Cerisaie is an urban park in the Croix-Rousse 4th arrondissement of Lyon, France. It is partially situated on a slope, leading from the plateau of the Croix-Rousse down towards the river Saône.

Wikipedia: Parc de la Cerisaie (EN)

Villa Gillet is located in Lyon, in the Parc de la Cerisaie. It is a European and international house of contemporary writing. It gives a voice to writers, thinkers and artists. It is a cultural institution that is interested in all forms of culture: literature, humanities, politics and social sciences, history, contemporary arts, etc. It brings together artists, writers, novelists and researchers from all over the world to nourish public reflection on the issues of our time through conferences, debates, round tables, and readings. The City of Lyon, the Métropole de Lyon, the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs, the National Book Centre and the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region contribute in part to its operation. From 1989 until 2019 it was directed by Guy Walter, who was also director of Les Subsistances.

Wikipedia: Villa Gillet (FR)

Parc Francis-Popy is a park in Lyon. Located in the 4th arrondissement of Lyon, in the Croix-Rousse district, it can be accessed via rue Henri Gorjus, or via rue Philippe de Lassalle.

Wikipedia: Parc Francis-Popy (FR)

The Château de la Tourette was a pleasure house located in the Croix-Rousse district of Lyon. It was entirely destroyed with the exception of the main door, classified as a historic monument by decree of January 22, 1910.

Wikipedia: Château de la Tourette (FR)

Galerie Vrai Rêves is an art gallery located on rue Dumenge in Lyon, France, specializing in contemporary photography.

Wikipedia: Galerie Vrais Rêves (FR), Website

La maison des Canuts is a museum located in Lyon, France. Emblematic of the Croix-Rousse district, it presents collections relating to the canuts, the silk workers of this district of Lyon, in particular functional looms, as well as elements related to the history of silk and its industry.

Wikipedia: Maison des Canuts (FR), Website

The Jardin Rosa Mir is a garden located in the center of La Croix-Rousse quarter in the 4th arrondissement of Lyon, and created by Jules Senis. It is housed in a courtyard of the building at No. 83 Grande Rue de la Croix-Rousse. It can be accessed through a path located at No. 87 in the same street.

Wikipedia: Jardin Rosa Mir (EN)

The Théâtre de la Croix-Rousse is a theatre located in the 4th arrondissement of Lyon, on the Place Joannès-Ambre and built from the end of the 1920s. The designer of the place is Michel Roux-Spitz. In 1980, the architect Georges Bacconnier led a restoration of the interiors.

Wikipedia: Théâtre de la Croix-Rousse (FR)

The list of painted walls in Lyon is a non-exhaustive list of exterior wall paintings in the Rhône department and the metropolis of Lyon. In common parlance, these "painted walls" are also called trompe-l'oeil or fresco.

Wikipedia: Liste de murs peints lyonnais (FR)

The war memorial on the island of Souvenir is a war memorial dedicated to the victims of the First World War located on the island of Souvenir, in the Park de la Tête-d'Or in Lyon in France.

Wikipedia: Monument aux morts de l'île du Souvenir (FR)

Parc de la Tête-d'Or is a public urban park located in Lyon, one of the largest in France. Designed by the brothers Denis and Eugène Bühler, the park was opened in 1857 but the work was not completed. It is exactly contemporary with New York's Central Park, created the same year. The park was enriched with many buildings such as the large greenhouses in 1865, the velodrome, the guards' chalet and the park chalet in 1894, the fence in 1896, the collection greenhouses in 1899, the war memorial on Swan Island between 1914 and 1930 and the new rose garden between 1961 and 1964.

Wikipedia: Parc de la Tête d'or (FR)

The Gros Caillou is one of the symbols of the Croix-Rousse district in Lyon, France. Erected as a stele, this massive grey-white rock, very hard weighing 24 tons, is a quartzite whose mineralogical composition shows that it was transported from the Alps to Lyon by glaciers: this is what is called an erratic block.

Wikipedia: Le Gros Caillou (FR)

Les bones de poisson, also underground galleries of the Balme Saint-Clair or sometimes the Réseaux des Fantasques, is the name given to a network of ancient galleries located under the Croix-Rousse plateau in Lyon. This archaeological site consists of galleries arranged in steps and all inclined towards the Rhône.

Wikipedia: Arêtes de poisson (FR)

Vieux 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, it is one of Europe's most extensive Renaissance neighborhoods. There are three distinct sections: Saint Jean, Saint Paul and Saint Georges. In 1998, Vieux Lyon was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List along with other districts in Lyon because of its historical importance and architecture.

Wikipedia: Vieux Lyon (EN), Heritage Website