How many days do you need in Lyon?
Three days. That is the length of the itinerary we built for Lyon.
Here is what each day holds. Every stop below carries its time, and every gap says how to get to the next stop, with the walk or drive time wherever both stops are mapped.
Lyon · 3 days France
Best time: April to June and September to October.
Vieux Lyon and FourviereDay 1
📍9:30 AMVieux Lyon
One of Europe’s largest Renaissance quarters, its blocks pierced by traboules built for the silk trade.
🚶 ~6 min · 🚗 ~1 min · 0.2 mi
📍12:00 PMBasilique Notre-Dame de Fourviere
The nineteenth-century basilica on the hill, reached by funicular, with the city and the Alps behind it on a clear day.
🚶 ~5 min · 🚗 ~1 min · 0.2 mi
🎭3:00 PMRoman theatres of Fourviere
Two Roman theatres cut into the hillside from 15 BC, still used for summer performances.
The peninsulaDay 2
📍10:00 AMPlace Bellecour and Presqu’ile
One of the largest pedestrian squares in Europe, at the centre of the peninsula between the Saone and the Rhone.
🚶 ~26 min · 🚗 ~3 min · 1.0 mi
📍12:30 PMLes Halles de Lyon
The indoor market where the city buys its cheese, charcuterie and quenelles, best before two.
🚶 ~24 min · 🚗 ~3 min · 0.9 mi
📍4:00 PMMusee des Beaux-Arts
In a seventeenth-century abbey off Place des Terreaux, with a collection second only to the Louvre in France.
Croix-Rousse and the confluenceDay 3
📍10:00 AMCroix-Rousse
The hill of the silk weavers, with tall-windowed workshops built for looms and the longest traboule in the city.
🚗 ~10 min · 2.9 mi
📍2:00 PMMusee des Confluences
A deconstructivist crystal at the point where the two rivers meet, mixing natural history and anthropology.
🚶 ~53 min · 🚗 ~7 min · 2.0 mi
⛴️5:30 PMRhone riverbanks
The redeveloped left bank, a long promenade of walkers, cyclists and moored barge bars.
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