Place Bellevue is a stone-paved esplanade located at the northern end of the Croix-Rousse plateau in Lyon. The site features stone benches and a fixed orientation table for mapping the surrounding landscape. Positioned on a natural…
Lyon Police and Crime Tour
This tour walks you through the cinematic underbelly of Lyon, tracking the filming locations of iconic French crime thrillers and television series. You will follow the footsteps of gritty inspectors and real-life gangsters across the city's scenic slopes, historic quarters, and hidden vaults.
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1. Place Bellevue
2. Jardin de la Grande-Côte
The Jardin de la Grande-Côte is defined by its terraced levels of greenery and a broad esplanade paved in Montalieu limestone. Situated on the slopes of La Croix-Rousse, this space functions as a transition between the dense urban grid of…
3. Place Rouville
Place Rouville is a quiet, elevated square on the slopes of the Croix-Rousse hill that serves as a panoramic viewpoint overlooking the city rooftops, the Saône River, and the Fourvière basilica. It is best known for the Maison Brunet, an…
4. Rue Saint-Paul
A narrow, stone-paved street climbs away from the river, flanked by high-walled buildings and aging facades. This is Rue Saint-Paul. In the film Les Lyonnais, directed by Olivier Marchal, the quiet character of this street is punctured by…
5. Place Saint-Jean
Place Saint-Jean is defined by the bronze fountain at its center, which depicts the baptism of Christ by John the Baptist. This pedestrian square sits in the heart of the Vieux Lyon district, tucked between the Saône River and the base of…
6. Restaurant Café du Soleil
The Café du Soleil sits on the Place de la Trinité, easily spotted by the golden sun painted against a blue background on its facade. Known as the oldest bouchon in Lyon, its origins trace back to the eighteenth century. During its early…
7. Voûte ouest sous Perrache / passage France Pejot
The Passage France Pejot is a two hundred eighty meter long tunnel running beneath the railway tracks of the Lyon-Perrache station. You can identify the path by the large, circular light fixtures suspended from the vaulted ceiling,…
8. Hôtel-Dieu de Lyon
The Hôtel-Dieu stands as an immense, three hundred and seventy-five meter long neoclassical building stretching along the banks of the Rhône. Designed by architect Jacques-Germain Soufflot, who also crafted the Pantheon in Paris, the…
9. Mémorial National de la Prison de Montluc
The Mémorial National de la Prison de Montluc is a grim, stone-walled complex on Rue Jeanne Hachette. Built in nineteen twenty-one, this former military prison gained its reputation as the primary detention center for the Gestapo in Lyon…