Tibbalds’ Annual Trip 2018 – Lyon

The focus of new development is centred around the Confluence of two rivers, the Rhône and the Saone, and area previously under-developed and associated with less desirable uses and features, such as the prison.

The city itself is enclosed by two hills: Croix-Rousse (‘the hill that works’) and Fourvière (‘the hill that prays’). UNESCO cited Lyon as the “exceptional testimony to the continuity of urban settlement over more than two millennia on a site of great commercial and strategic significance”, and designated the city for ‘universal value’ because how intact it is – as it hasn’t suffered a major disaster, or bombing.

As a group, we had few expectations of what we might find in the city; what we thought will be the subject of a future blog!