French Capital of gastronomy, Lyon, is a gorgeous city nestled in the Rhone Alps region of France. Located in east-central France, between Marseille and Paris, Lyon has always been a rabid traveler’s source of unending fascination. A city that is famed as much for its architecture as its food, Lyon provides you numerous reasons to book that business class seats to Lyon today! The city of Lyon has a very engaging topography to its credit. It has two rivers – Rhone and Saone – come together to the south of Lyon and form a peninsula, a large plain land that stretches eastward and two hills on its west and northern side.
With a staggering 3million population in its urban region, Lyon is quite easily the largest urban area you can hope to be in, outside of the City of Lights – Paris, itself. A historically prosperous city, Lyon is also a UNESCO World Heritage Site. But this is not just it! Lyon is famous for a whole lot of other things out of which the most renowned are its Festival of Lights, because of which it is called Capital of Lights and being a silk weaving center.
Few of the most visited sites in and around the city are the Tour Oxygène, Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière, Place Bellecour, the Tour Oxygène and the rail terminal Lyon Part-Dieu. Then there is also the 2nd arrondissement with its beautiful residential buildings, Parc de la Tête d'Or, one of Europe's biggest metropolitan parks, the Tour Swiss Life, a shopping center and the esteemed Lycée du Parc.