Chapter 01
The city that taught France to eat
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Destination · France
Lyon, France
France eats well because Lyon insists
A city of traboules, bouchons, and two rivers that has been quietly outperforming its own reputation for five hundred years.
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Climate
Continental with attitude — cold winters that mean it, warm summers that linger, and a spring that arrives fast and smells like the Saône.
Best season
Late September into October: the tourists have thinned, the Beaujolais harvest is on, and the bouchons are running at full tilt.
Atmosphere
- urban-midsize
- old-world
- culinary
- walkable
- cosmopolitan
- literary
- nocturnal
- early-rising
- artsy
The chapters
12 ways to get lost here
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Chapter 02
Silk money built these walls
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Chapter 03
Beaujolais starts twenty minutes north
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Chapter 04
Two rivers and the peninsula between
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Chapter 05
Morning belongs to the covered markets
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Chapter 06
The light changes everything after five
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Chapter 07
Vieux-Lyon after the tour groups leave
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Chapter 08
The Romans chose this hill first
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Chapter 09
Eight million lights, one winter night
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Chapter 10
Guignol has been mocking the powerful since 1808
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Chapter 11
The Resistance ran through these buildings
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Chapter 12
Chengdu eats the same way, for the same reasons
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