Secret Lyon Guide

<B>Far from the crowds and the usual clichés, the city of Lyon still holds well-hidden treasures that it reveals only to residents and travelers who know how to venture off the beaten path.<BR> <BR>An indispensable guide for those who thought they knew Lyon well or for those who wish to discover its other side.</B><BR><BR>An 18th-century boat on display in an underground parking garage, the plaque marking the first stage of the first Tour de France, lions on the move, a spectacular reservoir open to visitors by reservation, a building entrance that once belonged to a church, the strange house numbers on boulevard des États-Unis, the eccentric figures of the Basilica of Ainay, a plaque contradicting another, a cast of a magnetizer’s hand, Merovingian ruins beneath a highway ramp, mushrooms in a former military tunnel in Caluire, traces of cannonballs from 1793…<BR> <BR>Far from the crowds and the usual clichés, the city of Lyon still holds well-hidden treasures that it reveals only to residents and travelers who know how to venture off the beaten path.<BR> <BR>An indispensable guide for those who thought they knew Lyon well or for those who wish to discover its other side.