Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #5 in Lyon, France

Democritus Meditating on the Seat of the Soul is a statue by Léon-Alexandre Delhomme (1841–1895), exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1868. It shows the Greek philosopher Democritus, his eyes fixed on a skull he holds in his hands. It is now exhibited in the garden of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon.

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The Jardin du Palais Saint-Pierre is a municipal garden in Lyon, France, located within the grounds of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. It is set in a rectangle delimited by the arcades of the former cloister of the Benedictine abbey. Regular in style, it consists of half-moon or rectangular lawns, punctuated by vegetation and various sculptures. It is located in the city centre on the peninsula. Like the Museum of Fine Arts, the garden is open every day, except Tuesdays and public holidays, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Fridays from 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.

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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 Hotel Bullioud is a private mansion on rue Juiverie in Lyon. He is known for Philibert Delorme's gallery built following his trip to Italy (1536). Its decoration is the first experiment in France of a new architectural style, the Renaissance style.

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The Charvet clock, also known as the "Guignols clock", is a clock installed since 1864 in Lyon, France.

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The Sainte-Croix Church in Lyon is a Catholic church built in the 19th century. It is the northernmost church of the Lyon episcopal group comprising the Cathedral of Saint-Jean and the former Church of Saint-Étienne, remains of its foundations can be seen in the adjoining archaeological park.

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The Fourvière disaster was a tragic event in the city of Lyon that took place on the night of 12 to 13 November 1930. A section of the Fourvière hill collapsed, causing the destruction of buildings and the death of many people.

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The Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière is a minor basilica in Lyon, France. It was built with private funds between 1872 and 1896 in a dominant position overlooking the city. The site it occupies was once the Roman forum of Trajan, the forum vetus, thus its name.

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Fourvière is a district of Lyon, France, a hill immediately west of the old part of the town, rising from the river Saône. It is the site of the original Roman settlement of Lugdunum in 43 BC. The district contains many religious buildings including convents, monasteries and chapels. It is known in Lyon as "the hill that prays".

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The Chapel of Saint-Thomas is the oldest part of the sanctuary of Fourvière. Consecrated first to St. Thomas and then to the Virgin, it was destroyed and rebuilt many times.

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The Espace Culturel du Christianisme à Lyon (ECCLY), or Musée de l'Antiquaille, is an interpretation center of the history of Christianity located on the hill of Fourvière in Lyon, France, at 49 montée Saint-Barthélemy.

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Lugdunum, formerly known as the Gallo-Roman Museum of Lyon-Fourvière or Museum of Roman Civilisation, is a museum of Gallo-Roman civilisation in Lyon. Previously presented at the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon and the Antiquarium, the municipal Gallo-Roman collection was transferred to a new building designed by Bernard Zehrfuss and opened in 1975, near the city's Roman theatre and odeon, on a hill known as Fourvière, located in the heart of the Roman city. Internally, it is formed of a concrete spiral ramp descending and branching out into the display rooms. It is managed and operated by the Metropolis of Lyon jointly with the archaeological museum of Saint-Romain-en-Gal. As well as displaying its own permanent collections of Roman, Celtic and pre-Roman material, a plan-relief of the ancient town and scale models of its major monuments such as the theatre and the Odeon, it also regularly hosts temporary exhibitions. On November 8, 2017, the museum was renamed Lugdunum.

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The Basilica of Saint-Just also known as Saint-Just basilica or the Maccabees Basilica was one of the oldest and most powerful churches in the city of Lyon until it was destroyed during the French Wars of Religion.

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France First was a French resistance movement founded in Lyon during World War II.

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The Notre-Dame-de-Pitié Chapel, more commonly known as the Hôtel-Dieu Chapel, is a religious building located in the Bellecour district, in the 2nd arrondissement of Lyon which belongs to the Hospices civils de Lyon. It is sometimes called the church of the Hôtel-Dieu because of its attachment to the Basilica of Saint Bonaventure and previously to the parish of Saint-Nizier.

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The Église Saint-Bonaventure is one of the churches of the quarter Presqu'île, located on the Place des Cordeliers, in the 2nd arrondissement of Lyon. This is the only medieval building not demolished after the creation of the rue Impériale, under the Second Empire by the prefect Claude-Marius Vaïsse.

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The Grand Temple de Lyon, also known as the Temple des Brotteaux, is a Protestant place of worship located on the left bank of the Rhône, 3 quai Victor-Augagneur, in the 3rd arrondissement of Lyon. The parish is a member of the United Protestant Church of France.

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The Sainte-Croix Chapel or Chapel of the Missionaries of Notre-Dame is a Byzantine-style building located in the 6th arrondissement of Lyon. Erected in memory of the victims of the siege of Lyon in 1793, it belongs to the Commission du Monument Religieux des Brotteaux, an association under the law of 1901.

Wikipedia: Chapelle Sainte-Croix de Lyon (FR)

The Maurice Ravel Auditorium is a concert hall located in Part-Dieu, the 3rd district of Lyon. It was originally built for the National Orchestra of Lyon and is their residence hall. It is also one of the first buildings in France to be built with Prestressed concrete.

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The Gare des Brotteaux is an old railway station located in the Brotteaux quarter, in the 6th arrondissement of Lyon.

Wikipedia: Les Brotteaux station (EN)