Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Historic Site of Lyon' has mentioned 'Medieval' in the following places:
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| 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 |
| During the event, the local population places candles (lumignons) at their windows and the city of Lyon organizes impressive large-scale light shows onto the sides of important Lyonnais monuments, such as the medieval Cathxc3xa9drale St-Jean. | 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 |
| On this exceptional urban fabric, inscribed in the medieval precinct that endured until the 19th century, the majority of the conserved buildings represent a long period of its development. | UNESCO |