Know a travel secret about | Lyon, the 'Other' Paris
Travel to France usually means Paris, a few chateaux in the Loire Valley, usually Provence, and a quick trip to Reims or Burgundy for... you know... the best champagne and wine in the world. But who goes to Lyon? It's even spelled differently in English - Lyons - and for most people, it's a backwater. It's not! Here are my three reasons why you should go:
- Lyon is known as the Food Capital of France, home to Paul Bocuse and birthplace of the Nouvelle Cuisine. You won't be hankering for seconds in a typical 'bouchon Lyonnais' and it's a meal to remember.
- A large part of the city's core is a Unesco World Heritage Site, complete with winding streets and traboules (alleys connecting streets used in the past to carry bolts of silk or for smuggling), roman ruins, art deco and futuristic architecture, Basilica, Renaissance courtyards...
- You'll find some of France's more unusual museums here: Fabrics, Miniatures, Gallo-Roman, Urban, Resistance and Deportation, Film Sets, Printing and Puppets, not to mention the world-class art museums you'd expect to find in France's second-largest metropolitan area.
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