#Lyon UNESCO world heritage sites

#Lyon north

#Brunet House at #6 Place Rouville
# The Brunet house could have been just one of the biggest building created for the Canuts (the silk workers), but its architect decided to give it a little "cosmic" touch. Therefore that house contains 365 windows, 52 flats, 7 levels and 4 gates..

#Saint-Nizier Church at #1 Rue Saint-Nizier
# The church is mainly built in the Gothic style with a Renaissance portal.

#City Hall at #1 Place de la Comedie
# This masterpiece of classical architecture is sumptuously adorned with remarkable baroque- painted decors, stucco, gilding and garlands, which turn it into a real palace.

#Lassagne House at # 11 Quai Andre Lassagne
# Classical building.

#Courtyard of the Voracies at # 9 Place Colbert
# The Cour des Voraces, also called Maison de la Republique, is a building court in the Pentes quarter, in the 1st arrondissement of Lyon, and famous for its enormous six-floor stairway of fassade. It is a big traboule that link the number 9 of the Place Colbert and the number 14 bis of the montee de Saint-Sebastien or the number 29 of the rue Imbert-Colomes.

#House of the Silk Weavers at #10 Rue d'Ivry
# A historic site from the end of the 19th century, La Maison des Canuts nowadays presents collections of fabrics and old weaving mills that are still functional today.

#Wall of the Silk Weavers at #36 Boulevard des Canuts
# Painted in the trompe-l’oeil style (trick the eye), “Le Mur des Canuts” is a gigantic mural depicting ordinary life in the La Croix-Rousse neighborhood of Lyon, France. Hyperrealistic in imagery and packed with intricate details, this massive mural is considered one of the largest displays of public art in Europe.

#Lyon south

#Debourg House at #14 Rue Lainerie
Five storey building with a medieval heritage fassade mixing Gothic and Renaissance styles. Windows surmounted by arches in braces with hooks and shells, pinnacles, pinnacles, niche with shell sheltering a statue of the Virgin. This house bears the name of Claude de Bourg who was consul alderman in Lyon. Inside, driveway and spiral staircase.

#House of the Lions at #23 Rue Juiverie
# Known as « Maison aux lions» it is one of the most beautiful houses in Vieux-Lyon.

#Temple of Change on #Place du Change 2
# The Temple of Change or Loge du Change, formerly used for the stock exchange of Lyon, stands in Vieux Lyon (5th arrondissement of Lyon). It was originally built after plans by architect Simon Gourdet between 1631 and 1653, then rebuilt under the direction of Jacques-Germain Soufflot in 1748-1750. It has been assigned to Protestant worship since 1803, hence its designation Temple.

#Thomassin house at #2 Place du Change
# Grand family home dating to the 1200s & featuring a Gothic fassade & a notable painted ceiling.

#Saint John Cathedral on #Place Saint-Jean
# Through the big oak doors to St Jean Cathedral lie a spectacular 16th century astronomical clock, an array of stunning lamb rose stained-glass windows from the beginning of the 12th century, and stories upon stories from the Old Testament to the New.

#Manecanterie on #Place Saint-Jean
# The Parish choir school is probably the oldest building of Lyon, with the exception of the Roman buildings. It was built in the 11th century, in a style mixing the Gothic and Romanesque influences, but it is based on constructions of the 2nd, and 8th centuries.

#Maison du Chamarier at #37, rue Saint-Jean
# A gem of fifteenth-century architecture in Vieux-Lyon (Old Lyon), the Maison du Chamarier boasts a remarkable courtyard that features elements of both the Gothic and Renaissance styles.

#Basilica of Notre Dame de Fourviere at #8 Place de Fourviere
# Fourviere actually contains two churches, one on top of the other. The upper sanctuary is very ornate, while the lower is a much simpler design. Work on the triumphant basilica was begun in 1872 and finished in 1884. Finishing touches in the interior were not completed until as late as 1964.

#Basilique Saint-Martin-d’Ainay at #11 Rue Bourgelat
# Visitors can also discover very beautiful mosaics, paintings and other sculptures from the Romanesque period or the 19th century. Listed as a Historic Monument, the Basilica of Saint-Martin d'Ainay de Lyon also seduces with its exteriors, with in particular a bell tower-porch culminating at more than thirty meters with an 11th century base and a ribbed vault from the end of the 12th century.

#Bellecour Square at #Place Bellecour
# La Place Bellecour is a large square in the centre of Lyon, France, to the north of the Ainay district. Measuring 312 m by 200 m (62,000 m2 or 15 acres), it is one of the largest open square (i.e. without any patches of greenery or trees) in Europe, and the third biggest square in France, behind the Place des Quinconces in Bordeaux (126,000 m2) and the Place de la Concorde in Paris (86,400 m2). It is also the largest pedestrian square in Europe.

#Grand Hotel-Dieu at #1 Place de l'Hopital
# First erected in medieval times, the building originally served as the "Confrérie des frères pontifes" (est. 1184), a pontifical meeting-place and refuge for both traveling and local members of the clergy. However, when the first doctor Maître Martin Conras was hired in 1454, 'Hôtel-Dieu' became a fully functional hospital, one of the most important in France.