With the temperatures we’ve been having lately, we’d almost be tempted to perform a rain dance to cool things down. Don’t panic: if a miracle doesn’t come from the sky, it will come from our city of Lyon...
You might think you’re in a James Bond movie with this immense building hugging the shores of Lake Bourget, France’s largest natural lake. Yet this place is no fictional creation from a movie studio: it t...
In Lyon, summer evenings have long . The quays where the stone still retains its warmth, the terraces gently spilling out, or the hill of Fourvière when Les Nuits bring the Roman theaters to life with music, dance, thea...
A few kilometers northwest of Roanne, this small town full of character nestles on a promontory where vineyards, as much as the old stone buildings, are part of the scenery. Just like the Romanesque clois...
Let’s continue our famous tour of the Grands Ducs. This is a tour of buildings that deserve the spotlight simply because most of them have stood for over 1,000 years. After recently telling you about the...
Thousands of us pass by it every day. And yet, few of us are aware of this very distinctive architectural feature. Just like the astronomical clock at Saint-Jean Cathedral or the spiral staircase, the tre...
If you love stories of betrayal and missing jewels, you’ll adore one of the greatest mysteries in French history: the Affair of the Queen’s Necklace. In 1785, the court of Versailles was shaken when a fak...
1,229 years, to be exact. Because when it comes to this kind of masterpiece, every detail counts. This abbey was indeed founded in 797, at the time when Charlemagne was about to be crowned in Rome. Had he...
A sea of twinkling candles, timeless melodies reimagined: Candlelight’s magic formula has already taken the world by storm, and its success shows no signs of slowing down in Lyon. If this timeless escape has been on you...
Every day, thousands of us walk the pavement of Rue de la République without realizing that one of them seems to be trying to tell us something. Its color is not mouse gray, but blood red. For this is ind...