Lyon Renaissance

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Friendly owners Françoise and Patrick rent these two superbly situated Vieux Lyon apartments with beamed ceilings and kitchen facilities. The smaller 3rd-floor walk-up (Côté Cour) sleeps two, with windows overlooking a pretty tree-shaded square. A second unit (Côté Jardin), opposite Vieux Lyon's most famous medieval tower, has a spacious living room with ornamental fireplace and fold-out couch, plus a mezzanine with double bed.

Prices drop by €20 a night if you stay four nights or more.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Lyon attractions

1. Musées Gadagne

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Housed in a 16th-century mansion built for two rich Florentine bankers, this twin-themed exhibition space incorporates an excellent local history museum,…

2. Le Petit Musée Fantastique de Guignol

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The star of this tiny, two-floor museum is Guignol, the Lyonnais puppet famous for its slapstick antics and political commentary. Various animated scenes…

3. Musée Miniature et Cinéma

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This maze-like museum on tourist-busy rue St-Jean provides an unusual insight into the making of movie sets and special effects achieved with the use of…

4. Palais de Justice

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Facing the river in old Lyon, the grandiose neo-classical Palais de Justice is well worth a gander.

5. Cathédrale St-Jean-Baptiste

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Lyon's partly Romanesque cathedral was built between the late 11th and early 16th centuries. The portals of its Flamboyant Gothic facade, completed in…

6. Basilique Notre Dame de Fourvière

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Crowning the hill, with stunning city panoramas from its terrace, this superb example of late-19th-century French ecclesiastical architecture is lined…

7. Fresque des Lyonnais

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Well-known Lyonnais peer out from this beautifully executed seven-storey mural, including loom inventor Joseph-Marie Jacquard (1752–1834), Renaissance…

8. Musée Gallo-Romain de Fourvière

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For an enlightening historical perspective on the city's past, start your visit at this archaeological museum on the hillside of Fourvière. It hosts a…