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Lyon Short Breaks

Lyon Travel Guide
Lyon is a city located in France and has wide area. It is located in the east of France between two rivers named as Rhône and Saone, and the people are known as Lyonnais. There are many chemical and biotechnical industries and Lyon is also famous for software industries. This city is developed with the trade of silk and the maximum of the trade is done with Italy and Italy gives the name of innovation to the Lyon. At the time of World War II Lyon was the centre of German forces. Lyon has the third largest public square in the France and Europe's largest parks. As in the Paris Lyon is divided into many of municipal arrondissements and every one has its councils and identified by the numbers. There are about 9 arrondissements in the city Lyon.

Weather
The climate of Lyon is approximately very good to visit. Winters in the Lyon are cooler then the rest of the areas of the France. The temperature in the winters is about 3.2c in the month of December and January. In summers temperature is noted as high is about 27c. You can take idea from the temperature that the climate of Lyon is very nice for visit in the month of September and October.

Sights to visit
UNESCO world heritage site - it is the site which is now treated as history of the Lyon. This site includes roman districts, which is also known as silk district.

African museum of Lyon - it is the oldest museum which was made in 1861 by mission Africanise. From the 1998 it was started to refurbishment and reopened in 2001. Now days it is divided into three parts such as: - social life, everyday life and religious life. There is a huge collection of West Africans objects in this museum.

The roman era theatre - it is an ancient theatre of fourviere in the Lyon. It is located on the hill side of the fourviere. This theatre is made in 15BC with the capacity of 10000 people. In these days it is a beautiful historic site for the visitors.

Cathedral church - This church was made in 1476 and it is 80 meter long building with 20 meter wide from the choir. It was rebuilt by merklin-schutze in 1875. There is a clock on the cathedral from the 14th century.

Shopping in Lyon
For shopping Lyon's part dieu shopping centre is very famous, there are about 230 stores in this shopping centre. It is the one of the largest shopping centre in the Europe. There are many restaurants for eating and drinking.

Eurostar Short Breaks to Lyon

To reach Lyon there are three main ways, you can reach Lyon by air by rail or by road. There is an international railway stations in the Lyon city. The best way to reach Lyon is by train; in this if you want to travel from London to Lyon then you have a better option to travel from Eurostar. It will take you to the Paris and after that you can travel by TGV from Paris to Lyon. There is an air facility to travel to Lyon and the nearest airport is Lyon saint exupery airport. Bus facility is always there to travel from Paris to Lyon or from any other place to Lyon.

The journey through Channel tunnel is really exciting and convenient. Moreover you can also catch the glimpses of breathtaking beauty of countryside. It is hardly take 5hr 30min to reach Lyon from London.