«Soyeuse de Lyon » (Lyon Silky) is the very suggestive name given to the rose that was created especially for the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the « Parc de la Tête d'Or » in Lyon. This rose, which was selected during a contest held among rose-growers, will join the 350 varieties already present in the Park. Now see if you can spot the latest rose in these huge rose gardens, which were begun initially with a selection of rosebushes donated by Joséphine de Beauharnais.

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Photo: Monique Haehl

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In December 1998, UNESCO decided that Old Lyon deserved to be listed as a World Heritage Site, but it wasn't always like this. At the end of WW2, there were few who cared for the old buildings of the Gauls' ancient capital, though they were over a thousand years old. It took all the passion and militancy of a group of enthusiasts who, in October 1946, joined forces, under the  « Association Renaissance du Vieux Lyon », to rescue this doomed island of a city, where people would come merely to mix with the riff-raff. As the years passed and renovations went on, Fourvière revealed vestiges of the Gallo-Roman times, Saint-Jean remnants of the Middle Ages and Old Lyon's Renaissance treasures. 

If, until recently, the banks of the river Rhône were mainly used as car parks, they have gotten back their initial destination of use today: a space dedicated to strolling. Thus, while you cover the 5 kilometres between the Parc de la Tête d'Or and the new Gerland neighbourhood, you will cross the entire city of Lyon from North to South. The major part of the walk goes alongside the river, among hundreds of trees of all essences with an unusual view on the two hills of Fourvière and Croix Rousse that overlook the original Renaissance buildings of this World Heritage city.