Far from the crowds and the usual clichés, the city of Lyon still holds well-hidden treasures that it reveals only to residents and travelers who know how to venture off the beaten path.

An indispensable guide for those who thought they knew Lyon well or for those who wish to discover its other side.

An 18th-century boat on display in an underground parking garage, the plaque marking the first stage of the first Tour de France, lions on the move, a spectacular reservoir open to visitors by reservation, a building entrance that once belonged to a church, the strange house numbers on boulevard des États-Unis, the eccentric figures of the Basilica of Ainay, a plaque contradicting another, a cast of a magnetizer’s hand, Merovingian ruins beneath a highway ramp, mushrooms in a former military tunnel in Caluire, traces of cannonballs from 1793…

Far from the crowds and the usual clichés, the city of Lyon still holds well-hidden treasures that it reveals only to residents and travelers who know how to venture off the beaten path.

An indispensable guide for those who thought they knew Lyon well or for those who wish to discover its other side.