Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #7 in Lyon, France

Amédée Bonnet, born March 20, 1809 in Ambérieu (Ain) and died on December 2, 1858 in Lyon, is a French doctor, surgeon of the Hôtel-Dieu de Lyon, member of the Academy of Medicine. It is one of the precursors of orthopedic surgery.

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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 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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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 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 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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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 Fontaine Bartholdi is a fountain sculpted by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and realised in 1889 by Gaget & Gautier. It was erected at the Place des Terreaux, in the 1st arrondissement of Lyon, in September 1892.

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The Hôtel de Ville is the city hall of Lyon, France, and one of the largest historic buildings in the city. It is located between the Place des Terreaux and the Place de la Comédie, in front of the Opera Nouvel. Built in the late 17th century, the building has been classified as a Monument historique since 12 July 1886. As part of the Presqu'île district, the building was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List alongside other districts in the centre of Lyon, bearing testimony to Lyon's long history as an important European city.

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Eugène Pons, born May 15, 1886 in Saint-Etienne and died in deportation on February 24, 1945 at the Neuengamme concentration camp, is a Catholic figure in Lyon, a printer and a French resistant specializing in the printing of clandestine newspapers. From 1940 to 1944, he took care of his printing house on rue de la Vieille-Monnaie for the impression of newspapers of the Resistance, in particular Christian testimony, combat, the Marseillaise and Franc-Tireur. He was also responsible for 25,000 copies of the false nouvelliste on December 31, 1943. Defeating one of the employees of his printing press, he was arrested in May 1944, then deported to Neuengamme where he died of exhaustion in 1945.

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The Fresque des Lyonnais is an 800 m2 wall painting located in Lyon, France. It depicts twenty-four historical figures from Lyon and six contemporary figures. It was produced in 1994-1995 by CitéCréation.

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The Amphitheatre of the Three Gauls of Lugdunum (Lyon) was part of the Sanctuary of the Three Gauls dedicated to the cult of Rome and Augustus celebrated by the 60 Gallic tribes when they gathered at Lugdunum. In 1961, it was classified as a monument historique.

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The Cour des Voraces, also called Maison de la République, is a courtyard building in the Pentes quarter, in the 1st arrondissement of Lyon, famous for its enormous six-floor stairway. It is an impressive traboule, a covered passage with entrances on Place Colbert, Montée Saint-Sébastien and Rue Imbert-Colomès.

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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.

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The Centauress and the Faun or Centauress and Faun is a sculpture by Augustin Courtet installed in the garden of the Palais Saint-Pierre in 1849 before being transferred to the Parc de la Tête d'Or near the Porte des Enfants du Rhône. The statue was cast by the Parisian foundry Édouard Quesnel.

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