Things to do in Lyon
Around Lyon, Notrebellefrance lists 33 tourist sites within 25 km, including 14 castles, 11 museums, 2 monuments and 2 zoos and wildlife parks. Not to be missed: l'Aquarium du Grand Lyon, Site historique de Lyon and Musée des Tissus et Musée des Arts.
l'Aquarium du Grand Lyon
Come and experience a real world tour of fresh and salt waters. Dive into European rivers and let yourself drift to tropical seas, passing through the Pacific and Atlantic oceans and the great African lakes.
Site historique de Lyon
UNESCO World Heritage since 1998, the Historic Site of Lyon is one of the largest protected urban ensembles in Europe: Renaissance Old Lyon and its traboules, the Fourvière hill and its basilica, the Presqu'île and the slopes of Croix-Rousse tell two thousand years of unbroken history since the Roman foundation of Lugdunum.
Musée des Tissus et Musée des Arts
Cathédrale Saint Jean
Musée de l'imprimerie de Lyon
Musée Miniature et Cinéma
Musée d'Histoire de Lyon, les Musée
The Gadagne museum (or Hôtel de Gadagne) is a museum in the heart of Old Lyon, in the Saint-Jean district of Lyon.
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon
The Lyon Fine Arts Museum is a municipal museum founded in 1801 and located on Place des Terreaux in a former Benedictine abbey, the Abbey of the Ladies of Saint-Pierre, a listed historic monument better known as the Palais Saint-Pierre.
La Basilique de Fourvière
The basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière overlooks the city of Lyon from the top of the Fourvière hill, on the site of the old Forum of Trajan.
Musée gallo-romain de Fourvière
The museum of Gallo-Roman civilisation is in Lyon, near the Roman theatres, on the Fourvière hill, once in the heart of the Roman city of Lugdunum.
Musée de la résistance et de la déportation
Parc de la Tête d'Or
Musée des Confluences
Château de Ménival
Château de la Bachasse
Château de Francheville
Château de Saint-Cyr
Château-Perret
Mini World Lyon
An indoor animated miniatures park, opened in 2016 at Vaulx-en-Velin, which recreates towns, countryside and mountains with trains and autonomous vehicles.
Labyland
Planétarium de Vaulx en Velin
Château de Sans-Souci
Château du Tourvéon
Observatoire de Lyon
Château-Musée de Lacroix Laval
At the gates of the Lyon urban area, the Lacroix-Laval estate houses a sixteenth-century château in the heart of a 115-ha natural park of greenery.
Château de Rochetaillée-sur-Saone
The château now houses the Automobile Museum belonging to the City of Lyon, one of the finest French collections, due to its former owner, car enthusiast Henri Malartre.
Château de Lissieu
Château de Janzé
The château de Janzé is in the commune of Marcilly-d'Azergues, in the Rhône département, north-west of Lyon, on the slope of a valley overlooking the Azergues valley.
Parc de Courzieu
Musée Espace Pierres Folles
Château de Montribloud
Château de la Fontaine
