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The text related to the cultural heritage 'Historic Site of Lyon' has mentioned 'City' in the following places:
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| Lyon or Lyons (UK: /xcbx88lixcbx90xc9x92xccx83/,[5][6] US: /lixcbx88oxcax8an/,[7][8][c] French:xc2xa0[ljxc9x94xccx83] (listen); Arpitan: Liyon, pronouncedxc2xa0[xcax8ejxc9x94xccx83]; Italian: Lione, pronouncedxc2xa0[lixcbx88one]) is the third-largest city and second-largest urban area of France. | WIKI |
| Inhabitants of the city are called Lyonnais (masculine) and Lyonnaises (feminine). | WIKI |
| The city is recognised for its cuisine and gastronomy, as well as historical and architectural landmarks; as such, the districts of Old Lyon, the Fourvixc3xa8re hill, the Presqu'xc3xaele and the slopes of the Croix-Rousse are inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. | WIKI |
| The city contains a significant software industry with a particular focus on video games; in recent years it has fostered a growing local start-up sector. | WIKI |
| According to the Globalization and World Rankings Research Institute, Lyon is considered a Beta city, as of 2018[update]. | WIKI |
| Contents 1 History 1.1 Ancient Lyon 1.2 Modern Lyon 2 Geography 2.1 Climate 3 Administration 3.1 Commune 3.1.1 Mayors 3.2 Metropolis 3.2.1 Presidents of the Metropolitan Council 4 Main sights 4.1 Antiquity 4.2 Middle Ages and Renaissance 4.3 17th and 18th centuries 4.4 19th century and modern city 4.5 Museums 4.6 Parks and gardens 5 Economy 6 Culture 6.1 UNESCO World Heritage Site 6.2 Gastronomy 6.3 Sport 6.4 Street art 7 Demographics 8 Education 8.1 Universities and tertiary education 8.2 Primary and secondary schools 8.3 Supplementary education 9 Transport 10 International relations 11 See also 12 Notes 13 References 14 External links | WIKI |
| The city became increasingly referred to as Lugdunum (and occasionally Lugudunum[15]). | WIKI |
| The city became the starting point of main Roman roads in the area, and it quickly became the capital of the province, Gallia Lugdunensis. | WIKI |
| Two Emperors were born in this city: Claudius, whose speech is preserved in the Lyon Tablet in which he justifies the nomination of Gallic Senators, and Caracalla. | WIKI |
| During the Renaissance, the city's development was driven by the silk trade, which strengthened its ties to Italy. | WIKI |
| The city was besieged by Revolutionary armies for over two months before it surrendered in October 1793. | WIKI |
| The Convention ordered that its name be changed to "Liberated City", and a plaque was erected that proclaimed "Lyons made war on Liberty; Lyons no longer exists". | WIKI |
| The city became an important industrial town in the 19th century. | WIKI |
| However, the city was also a stronghold of the French Resistance, the many secret passages known as traboules, enabled people to escape Gestapo raids. | WIKI |
| The city is now home to a Resistance museum. | WIKI |
| The Rhxc3xb4ne and Saxc3xb4ne converge to the south of the historic city centre, forming a peninsula xe2x80x93 the "Presqu'xc3xaele" xe2x80x93 bounded by two large hills to the west and north and a large plain eastward. | WIKI |
| The northern hill is La Croix-Rousse, known as "the hill that works" because it is traditionally home to many small silk workshops, an industry for which the city has long been renowned. | WIKI |
| The district, Vieux Lyon, also hosts the Tour mxc3xa9tallique (a highly visible TV tower, replicating the last stage of the Eiffel Tower) and one of the city's railways. | WIKI |
| East of the Rhxc3xb4ne from the Presqu'xc3xaele is a large flat area upon which sits much of modern Lyon and contains most of the city's population. | WIKI |
| Situated in this area is La Part-Dieu urban centre, which clusters the landmark structures Tour Incity, Tour Part-Dieu, Tour Oxygxc3xa8ne, and Tour Swiss Life, as well as the city's primary railway station, Gare de Lyon-Part-Dieu. | WIKI |
| [28] But in modified classifications such as that of Trewartha, France's third largest city has an oceanic climate (Do). | WIKI |
| The second includes most of the city centre, Bellecour and Perrache railway station, and reaches as far as the confluence of the two rivers. | WIKI |
| The first is directly to the north of the second and covers part of the city centre (including the Hxc3xb4tel de Ville) and the slopes of La Croix-Rousse. | WIKI |
| The lion, symbol of the city, on display at Maison des avocats | WIKI |
| Cathedral of St. John, a medieval church with architectural elements of the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries, also the principal religious structure in the city and the seat of the Archbishop of Lyon; Basilica of St-Martin-d'Ainay, one of the rare surviving Romanesque basilica-style churches in Lyon; xc3x89glise Saint-Paul, Romanesque (12th and 13th century) and Gothic (15thxe2x80x9316th century) church; xc3x89glise Saint-Bonaventure, 14th- and 15th-century Gothic church; xc3x89glise Saint-Nizier, Gothic church from the 15th century, having a doorway carved in the 16th century by Philibert Delorme; Vieux Lyon (English: Old Lyon) area, Medieval and Renaissance quarter of the town, with shops, dining and cobbled streets; The many Renaissance hxc3xb4tels particuliers of the Old Lyon quarter, such as the Hxc3xb4tel de Bullioud, were also built by Philibert Delorme. | WIKI |
| 19th century and modern city[edit] | WIKI |
| Musxc3xa9e des beaux-arts de Lyon (Fine Arts Museum), main museum of the city and one of the largest art galleries in France. | WIKI |
| Parc de Gerland, in the south of the city (80 hectares); Parc des hauteurs, in Fourvixc3xa8res; Parc de Miribel-Jonage (2200 hectares); Parc de Lacroix-Laval (115 hectares); Parc de Parilly (178 hectares). | WIKI |
| La Part-Dieu, the city's central business district | WIKI |
| The GDP of Lyon was 74xc2xa0billion euro in 2012,[36] making it the second richest city in France after Paris. | WIKI |
| The city is home to the headquarters of many large companies such as Groupe SEB, Sanofi Pasteur, Renault Trucks, Norbert Dentressangle, LCL S.A., Descours & Cabaud, Merial, Point S, BioMxc3xa9rieux, Iveco Bus, Compagnie Nationale du Rhxc3xb4ne, GL Events, April Group, Boiron, Feu Vert, Panzani, Babolat, Euronews, Lyon Airports, LVL Medical, and inter-governmental agencies IARC, Interpol. | WIKI |
| The Lyonnais dialect was replaced by the French language as the importance of the city grew. | WIKI |
| 8 December each year is marked by the Festival of Lights (la Fxc3xaate des lumixc3xa8res), a celebration of thanks to the Virgin Mary, who purportedly saved the city from a deadly plague in the Middle Ages. | WIKI |
| Many are to be seen around the city. | WIKI |
| The unusual project Lyon Dubai City, a reproduction of some districts of Lyon in Dubai, is a major point for tourism in Lyon. | WIKI |
| The noted food critic Curnonsky referred to the city as "the gastronomic capital of the world",[45] a claim repeated by later writers such as Bill Buford. | WIKI |
| Two of France's best known wine-growing regions are located near the city: the Beaujolais region to the north and the Cxc3xb4tes du Rhxc3xb4ne region to the south. | WIKI |
| Mxc3xa2chons were the customary meal of the canuts, the city's silk workers, who ate a late-morning meal after they finished their shifts in the factories. | WIKI |
| Since 2000, Birdy Kids, a group of graffiti artists from the city, has decorated several random buildings and walls along the Lyon ring road. | WIKI |
| In 2012, the artist collective has been chosen to represent the city as its cultural ambassadors. | WIKI |
| The population of the city (commune) of Lyon proper was 516,092 at the January 2017 census. | WIKI |
| Lyon was the first city to be connected to Paris by the TGV in 1981. | WIKI |
| The city is at the heart of a dense road network and is located at the meeting point of several highways: A6 to Paris, A7 Marseille, A42 to Geneva, and A43 to Grenoble. | WIKI |
| The city is now bypassed by the A46. | WIKI |
| Its Lyon terminal is located at the city's Perrache railway station, which serves as an intermodal transportation hub for tramways, local and regional trains and buses, the terminus of Metro line A, of the Tramway T2, the bicycle service Vxc3xa9lo'v, and taxis. | WIKI |
| The ticketing system is relatively simple as the city has only one public transport operator, the SYTRAL. | WIKI |
| The public transit system has been complemented since 2005 by Vxc3xa9lo'v, a bicycle network providing a low-cost service where bicycles can be hired and returned at any of 340 stations throughout the city. | WIKI |
| Lyon was the first city in France to introduce this bicycle renting system. | WIKI |
| Humans have settled at this site destined for urbanization for more than two thousand years and built a city whose stages of development are still visible today: from the Roman vestiges of antique Lugdunum to the medieval streets on the slopes of Fourvixc3xa8re and the Renaissance dwellings of Vieux-Lyon, from the peninsula with a wealth of classical architecture to the slopes of Croix-Rousse with its very particular canut dwellings, which bear witness to an essential page in the history of the labouring classes of the 19th century. | UNESCO |
| Among the public buildings, mention should be made of the late 11th-century Manxc3xa9canterie (scola cantorum); the Ainay Abbey Church (1107), of pure Romanesque style; the Cathedral of Stxc2xa0John the Baptist (1160-1481), which retains a remarkable degree of stylistic homogeneity, despite the long period of construction; the Church of Stxc2xa0Nizier, begun in the 14th century and completed in 19th century, with its Flamboyant Gothic nave, its typical classical Renaissance faxc3xa7ade and its neo-Gothic spire; the imposing Hxc3xb4tel de Ville (1646-1703); the 17th-18th century Hxc3xb4tel-Dieu built over a medieval original; the Loge du Change (1745-80), now in use as a Protestant church; the Fourvixc3xa8re Basilica (1872-96), one of the most important landmarks of the city; and the Weaving School, the work of modernist architect Tony Garnier (1927-1933). | UNESCO |
| Unlike many other cities where the centre was destroyed in order to be rebuilt in the same place with new architecture, Lyonxe2x80x99s centre has shifted location, enabling the safeguarding of whole districts whose permanence renders the history of the city visible on the buildings themselves. | UNESCO |
| Located at a very specific geographical and geomorphological site, (the confluence of two rivers and three hills), the city was established at the crossing point of the trading thoroughfares between the influences of northern and southern Europe. | UNESCO |
| Moreover, Lyon represents, with its urban construction of more than two millennia, a development of its unique town planning: instead of rebuilding on itself, the city progressively expanded towards the east, thus conserving all the forms of town planning of the different eras alongside each other. | UNESCO |
| With its unusual town planning, the city has always been characterised by important human occupation, still evident today. | UNESCO |
| The city is typologically and architecturally permeated by its uses (commerce, craft, industry, teaching, religionxe2x80xa6) and the expression of powers (civil, religious, hospitable, merchant, bourgeois, canut, industrialxe2x80xa6). | UNESCO |