Start from 81 curated places around Lyon, FR, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
La Mère Brazier
The flagship of Lyon's mères tradition - founded by Eugénie Brazier, the first woman to hold three Michelin stars, and still holding two today. The Bresse chicken in yellow-wine sauce and the artichoke with foie gras are her dishes, kept on the menu out of respect.
Le Garet
A certified bouchon near the opera that has fed journalists, magistrates, and silk men since the nineteenth century - checked tablecloths, sauce-stained menus, and the full canon: tablier de sapeur, quenelle, cervelle de canut. This is the bouchon locals send you to when you ask for the real one.
Trails & outdoors
Parc des Hauteurs
The hillside path system linking Fourvière basilica to the Saône below - rose-lined walkways, the Quatre Vents footbridge along an old funicular line, and stacked views over the old town's roofs. It is the scenic way up or down the hill, and most funicular riders never find it.
Jardin de la Grande-Côte
The terraced garden at the top of the Montée de la Grande-Côte, the steep pedestrian spine of the Croix-Rousse slopes - a short, sharp urban climb past silk-workers' houses ending at an esplanade view over the whole Presqu'île. Under a mile, but your legs will register it.
Things to do
Musée des Confluences
The deconstructivist glass-and-steel cloud at the meeting point of the Rhône and Saône, filled with an unlikely universal collection - dinosaurs, samurai armor, moon dust, Egyptian mummies. The building alone justifies the tram ride; the anthropology-meets-science curation keeps you for hours.
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon
France's most important fine-arts collection outside the Louvre, housed in a seventeenth-century abbey on Place des Terreaux - Egyptian antiquities through Impressionists, with a sculpture-filled cloister garden in the middle. Big enough to matter, small enough to finish.
Landmarks & sights
Basilique Notre-Dame de Fourvière
The white basilica crowning Fourvière hill, so layered with mosaics, gilded domes, and stone lace that locals call it the upside-down elephant. The esplanade out front is the city's defining view: both rivers, the red roofs of Vieux Lyon, and the Alps on a clear day.
Théâtre Gallo Romain
A pair of Roman theatres carved into Fourvière hill when Lyon was Lugdunum, capital of Roman Gaul. You can scramble over the stone tiers freely - it works as a park as much as a ruin, and locals come up with a sandwich to sit where audiences sat two millennia ago.