Population: 1,250,000.
Ethnic mix: European, North African, and African.
Religion: Roman Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, and Muslim.
Time Zone: gmt +1
Electricity: 220 volts AC, 50 Hz;
Average January Temperature: 3 degrees Celsius (37 degrees Fahrenheit) .
Average July Temperature: 21 degrees Celsius (70 degrees Fahrenheit).
Rainfall: 826 mm (33 inches) per year.
France's most populous city after Paris is Lyon, an ancient city with a rich history in the southeast of France, especially since it was designated a UNESCO World Heritage City in 1998. The center of Lyon's old town is filled with medieval buildings and churches, earning it the nickname "the city with a pink heart".
In recent years, Lyon has seen great development in industry and commerce, transportation, science and education, with a population of 1,260,000, including the suburbs, making it the second largest metropolitan area and the economic and cultural center of France after Paris, and enjoying an increasingly important position in the international arena.
City of Culture
Lyon has always been a city of culture, and from 1450 to 1550, wealthy bankers, both German and Italian, arrived to bring prosperity and a lively atmosphere to the city. Lyon had the largest number of printers in all of Europe, with the exception of Venice, where the first French books were printed in the printing press. Especially worth remembering here is the French Renaissance writer and literati Francis Rabelais, who graduated from the University of Montpellier, became a famous doctor, and began to publish his works in 1532, completing his biography of the Giant at his residence in Lyon, not far from the hospital where he worked. Lyon had a cultural salon well attended by artists and writers, which made an important contribution to the dissemination of new literary ideas and theories. It is a city aware of its glorious past and confident of its future, and its success and the place it will occupy in the economic and artistic spheres of all France are firmly believed by all prophets.
Attractions
Place bellecour
Lyon's city center is the huge Place bellecour, once known as Place Royale, with a tall statue of Louis XIV on horseback as its most important, and arguably only, decoration. The biggest difference between Piazza Bellerive and the general center square is that its ground is entirely paved with red clay, a feature that does not make it beautiful, but is impressive, and those who do not like it refer to it as a "giant tennis court". The red tones of the square harmonize well with the red roofs and other warm tones of the buildings of the old city of Lyon. The Place des Blancs was an important stage for the textile workers' riots in Lyon in the mid-19th century.
The square is surrounded by four- and five-story buildings built in the early 19th century, with flower stores, cafes, and restaurants, making it a perfect place for citizens to relax. To the southeast of the square sits the Musée des arts décoratifs, which has a fascinating collection of artifacts.
Old Town
The Place de la Vaudois is the heart of Lyon, and continuing north is the aforementioned silk-weaving center of Croix-Rousse. To the west, cross the Sa?ne and the old town of Lyon (vieux lyon) comes into view. This old neighborhood is home to many old houses from the 15th to 17th centuries, with their bright orange and red hues. As you walk along the narrow streets, the mixture of centuries-old buildings and the heavy air of the neighborhood gives you a strong sense of antiquity, as if you were in the Middle Ages. Many Gothic, Renaissance and Classical houses are connected to each other, giving you a sense of Lyon's long history and tradition in the face of changing times.
Primatiale St-Jean
Wandering through the old quarter, on the banks of the river Sa?ne, you can see the stripped-down, ancient Primatiale St-Jean, which isn't particularly grand, but is known for its age and stature, being nearly 1,000 years old, and a mixture of Romanesque and Gothic styles. It is said that the Archbishop of Lyon had the status of Chief Archbishop, hence the name of his cathedral. It has witnessed the coronation of Pope John XXII and celebrated the grand wedding of King Henry IV and Queen Marie de Medici. These are the historical events and glories that the citizens of Dang Yes are still talking about today.
The C?te de la Fourvière
Look up at the C?te de la Fourvière to the west of the cathedral, where the basilique notre- dame, regarded as the symbol of Lyon, towers over the city, and can be reached by cable car or by walking up the steep slopes. Built in the 19th century, the exterior of this church is a fusion of Byzantine and medieval styles, decorated in marble, with glass glistening with colorful patterns, and containing fine mosaics and frescoes. On the top of the tower of the Chapel of Our Lady, which is connected to the right, the statue of Mary stands, gleaming gold in the sunlight. Standing on the platform on the left side of the church, overlooking the Lyon scenery, the endless red-tiled roofs, just like a red cloud, giving a very deep impression.
Gaul-Roman Museum
Not far south of Notre Dame, is the Gallo-Roman Museum of Culture (musee de la civilisation gallo-romaine).
The Museum of Gallo-Roman Culture (musee de la civilisation gallo-romaine), built on a hill, is extremely creative and full of ingenious design. The entrance is on the fifth floor, and you descend one floor for each dynasty. As you wind your way down, you travel through history. The centerpiece is the Claudian Bronze Plate, discovered in 1528, inscribed with the Roman Emperor Claudius I's speech to the Senate in 48 AD. Many works of art can also be admired, such as the chariot wheels or the bronze statue of Neptune. Looking out of the windows are two Roman amphitheaters, which, like the Chinese gardens with their borrowed landscapes, make you feel as if you were in Roman times. Two thousand years ago, Lyon was a city on a hill, centered on these two amphitheaters and surrounded by walls. It was here that Julius Caesar used as a base for his conquest of Gaul. The streets of the neighborhood are now devoid of its former glory, and the remains of the Roman theaters are a reminder of the past.
Home of invention
Lyon has been home to many inventors and scientists. In addition to the aforementioned textile machinery inventor Jacquard, the Montgolfier brothers, who were born in a family of paper makers near Lyon, developed the world's first hot-air balloon, and in 1783, in the southern suburb of the town of Annecy, they performed the first "floatation device", which was a sensation in France. In the same year, in the square of Versailles, in front of Louis XVI and more than 30,000 spectators, they succeeded in sending live sheep, ducks and chickens into the sky by balloon. Soon after, the balloon was loaded into the air, drifted for 25 minutes, and landed safely 8.9 kilometers from the take-off point. Both brothers were later elected to the Académie fran?aise and went down in history as the driving force behind human aviation.
Almost at the same time as the two brothers, another Lyonian, Jouffreau, devoted himself to the study of ships, and in 1783 he made the first use of propulsion when he sailed his 180-ton pyrosc-aphe up the Sa?ne against the current. This was the world's first motorized ship, and it was more than 20 years before Fulton invented the steam passenger ship in the United States.
Lyon is also the home of Timonier, the inventor of the sewing machine. The sewing machine he invented in 1829 was the world's first mass-produced sewing machine. Hand-sewing workers who were afraid of losing their jobs repeatedly stormed Timonier's home and destroyed the sewing machine, but he did not give in and continued to improve it. Today, the sewing machine has been introduced to thousands of households, and is known as "the tool for the benefit of mankind after the plow". A monument to Timonier was erected in Lyon to honor his work.
Physicist Ampere is also Lyon people, he grew up smart, 12 years old has mastered the knowledge of advanced mathematics. He discovered many important principles in the study of electromagnetic action, laid the foundation of electromagnetism, and also invented the galvanometer. In order to commemorate this scientist's outstanding contribution to electricity, people named the unit of electric current as ampere, which is known to every secondary school student. The people of Lyon are so proud of this physicist that they named a square on Hugo Street the Place des Ampere and erected a bronze statue of him.
In 1870, the Lumière brothers moved with their parents from Besan?on to Lyon, and grew up in their father's small workshop making dry plates for photographs. On March 19, 1895, they shot their first film, "Lumière's Factory Gates", in Lyon, followed by "Baby's Breakfast", "Children's Fights", "Watering the Gardener", and so on. On December 28th of the same year, they screened these films for the first time in Paris, and since then, film has become the audience's friend and entered the lives of hundreds of millions of people. In order to commemorate these two pioneers of the film industry, people to their former home in Lyon as a memorial (lnstitut lumière), the street was also named "the first film street" (rue du ler film).
Paris
(Paris) is the largest city in continental Europe and one of the busiest cities in the world. It is located in northern France, on the west bank of the Seine River, 375 kilometers from its mouth (the English Channel). The Seine River meanders through the city, forming two islands in the center of the river (Side and St. Louis). The city has a population of 2.17 million. The city itself, in the center of the Paris Basin, has a mild maritime climate with warm winters and cool summers; the average temperature is 3°C in January, 18°C in July, and 10°C annually. Rainfall is distributed evenly throughout the year, with slightly more in summer and fall, and an average annual rainfall of 619 millimeters.
Two thousand years ago, before there was a country called "France" on earth, and before there were what we call "French people" today, there was ancient Paris. However, at that time, Paris was still just a small fishing village in the middle of the Seine River on the island of Citeaux, the owner of the island is the ancient Gaulish tribes of the "Parisians". In the first century B.C., the Romans began to settle here and gradually developed it into a city called "Lourdes" (French for "marsh"). In the 4th century, the city was named "Paris" in honor of its earliest owners.
Paris was the capital of the Frankish kingdom in 508 A.D. At the end of the 10th century, King Hugh Capet built a royal palace here. At the end of the 10th century, King Hugh Capet built his palace here. Over the next two or three centuries, the city changed hands to Philip Augustus (1165-1265), who was the first king of the Franks. Augustus (1165-1223). By this time, Paris had grown to encompass both sides of the Seine River, with churches and buildings abounding, making it the political and cultural center of the West at the time.
In the late 16th and early 17th centuries A.D., the then King Henry IV greatly expanded Paris. By the 18th and 19th centuries, Paris was still gradually expanding, and a great deal of arable land was taken up by the city. The late French First Empire, Paris has more than 700,000 residents, more than a thousand streets; the Second Empire was established, Paris and annexed some of the surrounding villages; to Napoleon III, began to open up some wide roads in Paris, the construction of a number of gardens and parks, so that Paris began to form the appearance of today.
After the war, the French government spared no effort in the construction of Paris. Although in 1970, once in order to evacuate the overly concentrated in the capital of France's various political and economic institutions, the development of Paris was suspended, but since the establishment of the Pompidou Center and the new shopping underground street in 1977, the construction of Paris has taken on a new direction. In order to make the development of the east and west downtown of Paris more balanced, started in 1981, with Mitterrand as President of the French government began, including the Bastille Opera House, the National Library, including the construction of the ten major projects, has been completed by the end of 1996.
Paris is the largest industrial and commercial city in France. The northern suburbs are mainly manufacturing areas. The most developed manufacturing projects are automobiles, electrical appliances, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, food and so on. Luxury goods production second, and mainly concentrated in the city center districts; products are precious metal appliances, leather products, porcelain, clothing and so on. Peripheral urban areas specializing in the production of furniture, shoes, precision tools, optical instruments. Printing and publishing industry is concentrated in the Latin Quarter and Rue de Remy. Greater Paris (metropolitan) district film production accounted for three-quarters of the total production of French films. The headquarters of most of the banks and insurance companies in Paris (including the Bank of France and the stock exchange) are located in the west side of the "market" (1183-1969 for the local center of the market).
Paris is the center of French culture and education, as well as a world city of culture. France's famous Institut de France, the University of Paris, the Ecole Polytechnique, the école Normale Supérieure, the école Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique are all located in Paris. The University of Paris is one of the oldest universities in the world, founded in 1253. There are also many academic and research institutions, libraries, museums and theaters in Paris.
Paris has 50 theaters, 200 cinemas, and 15 concert halls. The Paris Opera House is the largest opera house in the world, located in the center of the city on the Rue Haussmann, covering an area of 110,000 square meters, the whole building has both Gothic and Romanesque styles. The French National Conservatory of Music and Dance School are also located here.
Paris "street art" is very active, the city's northwestern Terre des Arts Square is a world-famous open-air gallery, where many painters paint on the spot for sale every day. In the center of the city of Chatelet Square and St. Germain des Prés Square and other places. Germain d'Arbour Square and other places, young students and citizens often bring their own musical instruments to hold concerts and perform a variety of programs.
Paris is a world historical city, attractions abound, the Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe, the Elysee Palace, the Palace of Versailles, the Louvre, the Place de la Concorde, Notre Dame, the Georges Pompidou National Center for Culture and the Arts, and so on. Pompidou National Center for Culture and the Arts, etc., is the domestic and foreign tourists to linger. The beautiful banks of the Seine River, parks, green spaces dotted, 32 bridges across the river, making the river scenery more charming and colorful. The city island in the center of the river is the cradle and birthplace of Paris. The boulevard Saint-Michel on the Seine has a used book market that stretches for several kilometers, and every day there are many domestic and foreign scholars and tourists who come here to buy their beloved antique books, forming a major feature of the Latin Quarter, the old cultural district on the Seine.
Paris is also a "world conference city". It is bright scenery, rich monuments, colorful cultural activities and modern service facilities, ushered in a large number of international conferences, according to statistics, in 1987 in Paris *** held 365 international conferences, more than New York, London, Brussels, Geneva, ranking first in the world. UNESCO, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and other international organizations are headquartered in Paris.
There is a well-known French proverb: "Paris was not built in a day." Broken down, the city of Paris*** has 20 arrondissements and more than 5,000 large and small streets, roads and boulevards. The city's east, west, south and north buildings are clearly defined, making it easy for passers-by to correctly determine where they are in the city.
Paris is the center of France with its domed churches, Arc de Triomphe, great palaces, majestic squares, royal parks, and millions of twinkling lights every night. 300-meter-high Eiffel Tower, which was denounced as "unfortunate and useless" more than a hundred years ago, has been kindly accepted and has become the symbol of Paris. became a symbol of Paris.
Paris has ten great attractions that every visitor can't miss: the Eiffel Tower, La Coupole (the bar), the Sacré-Coeur, the Picasso Museum, the Montmartre hill, the Louvre and the Arc de Triomphe, the Rue du Lapulet, the chic of the Place de la Victoire, and the Palace of Versailles.
When in Paris, be sure to enjoy overlooking the beautiful city of Paris. From Notre Dame, the Arc de Triomphe, the picturesque terraces of the LaSamaritsine stores and the heights of Montmartre, the views of Paris are truly breathtaking. Of course there is nothing more pleasant than seeing Paris from the Eiffel Tower, which towers like a steel giant over the Seine in the center of Paris.
The city of Paris has 70 museums to invade your mind with art, each one wonderful and unique. The Louvre, the world's largest, is located on the right bank of the Seine River and is famous for its rich collection of classical paintings and sculptures, one of the most precious buildings of the French Renaissance. The Musée d'Orsay, which houses art from the late 18th and early 19th centuries, is also a fascinating place to visit, even though it was originally converted from a train station, while the Musee de l'Orangerie houses the works of the Impressionists at the end of the 19th century, and of course there is also the Musée Picasso, the Musée de la Cluny, the Musée Rodin... ...etc. Coming to Paris really makes you feel like you are entering the land of art!
Notre Dame de Paris, located on the island of ?le de la Cité in the center of the Seine River, is a French Gothic building, which is not only famous for Victor Hugo's famous novel Notre Dame de Paris, but also because it is the oldest, largest and the most outstanding Catholic church in the history of architecture in Paris. In addition, the Arc de Triomphe and the Palace of Versailles, among others, are all visited by people.
Like the riverbanks and the couturiers, the little cafes and the cafeterias, the vagabonds and the janitors, Paris is the city of all, the greatness and sanctity of the empire, the wealth and the power, the tradition and the warmth, the wit and the casual way of being in the world and the cosmopolitanism, it is proud and capricious, full of contradictions and contrasts.
Deday, who was born in Southern France, began his book "Letters from the Windmill Cottage" by saying, "I have no desire for the hustle and bustle of gloomy Paris." Yet Deday eventually came to Paris and stayed there for the rest of his life.
Throughout the ages, young people from all over the world have come to Paris with all kinds of dreams and ambitions, where they have realized their dreams and had their disappointments, but, as Lilac once said, "Paris is an incomparable city."
Eating habits
The French eat breakfast at 7 or 8 o'clock, usually with coffee or black tea and slices of buttered bread or crumpets in the shape of moon buds. Lunch is served at 12:30 p.m. or 1 p.m., and dinner is served around 8 p.m.
The meal begins with cold cuts, followed by a main course, and finishes with cheese, fruit, or pastries for dessert.
The beverages served with the meal are wine, not spirits, red wine for meat, white wine for fish or seafood, and rosé, a light wine served with fish or meat. All of these wines used with meals are sweetened and called dry wines, while sweet wines are drunk before or after meals with snacks and are called aperitifs.
The French are accustomed to drinking coffee after lunch. Sometimes a small glass of spirits is drunk after coffee.
Menus in bistros are usually posted outside the establishment, so prices are known in advance. Prices of meals change with the restaurant and vary widely.
The famous dishes series
includes onion soup, stuffed snails, oysters, foie gras, black mushrooms, etc., and of course the prices for these dishes can be surprising. However, chicken cooked in red wine, steak and pork chops, and a variety of salads are all more economical dishes.
Specialties of a Parisian restaurant
It couldn't be easier to find a restaurant in Paris, and as you stroll through the streets of this gastronomic capital, restaurants are everywhere.
Open-air restaurants with tables out on the street, restaurants with floor-to-ceiling windows where you can see what's inside, restaurants that sell oysters out front, and so on are just a few of the many and varied options available.
In Paris, not only can travelers eat authentic French food, but they will not be disappointed in any restaurant they enter. Unlike other countries, some do not live up to their name.
In London, there are no famous restaurants, and people tend to have hamburgers and pizzas for dinner - I don't know if you've ever had that experience, but in Paris you don't have to have such miserable memories.
Dining in a restaurant is not just about filling your stomach, it's also about experiencing the atmosphere of the street. That's what Parisian restaurants are all about.
Parisian cuisine is world-renowned , but let's see what it's all about.
Order of the menu
The menu is generally written in the following order (but you don't have to eat everything).
Entree A starter before the main meal: usually a soup or a salad
Poissons Fish
Viandes Meat
Legumes Vegetables
Dessert Dessert
Choice of restaurant
Paris has a wide range of restaurants to choose from. You can pick up a "Restaurants" pamphlet from the Office du Tourisme de Paris, which describes Parisian restaurants, as a reference.
Fast food restaurants such as McDonald's are not very common in Paris and can only be found in the more touristy areas such as the Champs Elysees, where they are more expensive.
Selected Chinese restaurants in Paris
Name Restaurant Name (French) Address Zip Code (Paris) Phone number
New Dunhuang Restaurant La Table de Ming 17,Av,de 1`Opera 75001 0142609380
New Beauty Restaurant L`auberge Fleuris 11, Rue de la Nichodiere, Paris. Rue de la Nichodiere 75002 0147427481
Temple Celeste 9,Rue Volta 75003 0142729671
The Great Wall Restaurant Mandarin de Rambuteau 11,Rue Rambutean 75004 0142728722
Peking House Restaurant de pekin 16,,Rue Cujas 75005 0143549617
Cantonese Restaurant Canton St Germain 5,Rue Gozlin 75006 0143265186
Huangdu Grenelle de Pekin 124,Rue de Grenelle 75007 0145517723
Fortune House Au Mandarin 1,Rue de Berri 75008 0143594848
Lanting Aux Orchidees 79,Bd de Courcelles 75008 0147633922
Fung Chak Yuen Au Boheur du Palais 5,Rue Rougemont 75009 0142463100
New China Town Restaurant China Town Belleville 27-29,Rue de Buisson St-Louis 75010 0142393419
Opening hours
The restaurant is generally open from 12:00 noon to 2:30pm, and from 7:00pm to 11:00pm in the evenings, while the rest of the time you can go to the Cafe or Brasserie. For light snacks, such as sandwiches, head to Creperie.
Prices
Most restaurants have the menu of the day and prices posted on the door, and most have a plat du jour (today's recommended menu) at lunchtime, which is a good deal.
Scenery on the move
Paris is full of beauty!
List of Attractions
Alpine Mountains Notre Dame de Paris Palace of Versailles
Fontainebleau Arc de Triomphe Louvre
Pont Alexandre III Seine River Sacre Coeur
Eiffel Tower Champs-Elysees Concorde
Travel Advice
Buy a Paris hotel guidebook
The Tourist Office sells guided tours of Paris at its guesthouses. The Tourist Office guides sell a booklet in the nature of a guide to Paris hotels." hotelset Résidencesde Tourisme," which collects all the hotels from the 1st to the 20th arrondissements and even the suburbs. There are no photos or detailed descriptions, but it is divided by arrondissement and is extremely useful for finding hotel phone numbers and prices. It's only 10F a copy, so buy one and next time you're in Paris, it'll be so easy to find a hotel to stay in.
Office de Tourisme
The first place to visit in Paris is the Office de Tourisme, a centralized office at 127 Champs-Elysées that not only helps tourists make hotel reservations, but also answers all their questions and gives them maps and guides to hotels and restaurants.
Along with the office on the Champs-Elysées, there are also similar offices at major stations, airports and even at the Eiffel Tower during the peak tourist season.
Paris information magazines
Town magazines are an invaluable source of information. Nowadays, these magazines are most useful if you want to be the first to know what is worth seeing and hearing in Paris. Here are a few of the main magazines.
Parisocpe (3F)
I' Officiel des Spectacles (2F)
The above are the 2 representative magazines of the Parisian edition, which are on sale every Wednesday. They contain a lot of information about public performances or movies.
Paris Capitale (18F)
Monthly magazine with many pictures. The above information magazines are available at newsstands at stations or in the streets. Lastly, I would like to introduce an atlas that is not an informative publication, but very handy for finding small streets.
Paris Par Arrondissement
This is a notebook-sized booklet that has each arrondissement marked on a map. To look up a street name, at a glance, you immediately know the location and where you are now. It's also an invisible bestseller that every Frenchman living in Paris must have a copy of. When you get lost, it's much easier to use this book than a large map.
Additionally, the Paris Plan, a "Michelin" map (a travel brochure issued by a European travel agency in France), is also easy to use. There are folding or pocket-sized versions, but the contents are the same.
Paris and the banks of the Seine
English name: Banks of the Seine in Paris
No. 565-018
Enlisted in 1991 on the World Heritage List according to the selection criteria for cultural heritage, Criteria C(I), (II), (IV)
Evaluated by the World Heritage Committee:
From the Louvre to the Eiffel Tower or from the Place de la Concorde to the Chateau de Versailles, large and small, Paris's historical transformation is seen as originating from the Seine. While Haussmann's wide squares and boulevards influenced urbanism around the world in the late 19th and 20th centuries, Notre Dame de Paris and the Church of the Saints became architectural masterpieces.
Paris is truly a city blessed with a wealth of historical monuments and architectural beauty to explore in the city alone, and of course the French cuisine is impeccable, with fine wines and grapes to savor, it is a city of romance, full of sensuality, and no shortage of materialistic pleasures. It is an honor to be a Parisian in any country.