Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #8 in Lyon, France

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)

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)

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.

Wikipedia: Amphitheatre of the Three Gauls (EN)

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.

Wikipedia: Eugène Pons (FR)

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.

Wikipedia: Cour des Voraces (EN)

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)

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)

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

Aux enfants du Rhône, defenders de la Patrie, commonly known as the Monument des enfants du Rhône, is a war memorial dedicated to the soldiers from Lyon who died during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. It is located Place du Général-Leclerc at the entrance of the Parc de la Tête d'Or named "Porte des Enfants du Rhône" in Lyon, France. The sculpture was made by the sculptor Étienne Pagny and was inaugurated on October 30, 1887.

Wikipedia: Monument des enfants du Rhône (FR)

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.

Wikipedia: Centauresse et Faune (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)

The Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon is a museum devoted to contemporary art, located in the 6th arrondissement of Lyon, in the Cité Internationale, next to the cinema, in front of the Parc de la Tête d'Or. It had over 42,000 visitors in 2007.

Wikipedia: Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon (EN), Website

Les Habitants is a set of six sculptures created by Xavier Veilhan, installed in 2006 at the Cité internationale de Lyon. This set is composed of: Two Penguins, Great Penguin, Girl on Rollerblades, The Pizza Delivery Man, Bear, and Man on the Phone. With a height of 2.8 m to 8.0 m, the statues are made of polyester resin.

Wikipedia: Les Habitants (Veilhan) (FR)

Lyon Zoo is a zoo in France located in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes inside parc de la Tête d'Or in the town of Lyon.

Wikipedia: Lyon Zoo (EN)

Le Transbordeur is a 1,800-seat concert hall located in Villeurbanne, France. It was inaugurated in 1989.

Wikipedia: Le Transbordeur (EN), Website

Le Parc de la Feyssine is a park in Lyon, France.

Wikipedia: Parc de la Feyssine (EN)