With 6 million tourists per year, Lyon is the second tourist city in France, behind Paris.

Lyon has an important religious heritage, it is the seat of one of the oldest Catholic dioceses in France, which has a rich and numerous heritage: cathedral, basilica, churches, chapels, monasteries, convents, religious congregations, monumental crosses, statues.... Its most remarkable buildings are mostly within the historic site.

In spite of a strong urban concentration, the city of Lyon is decorated with numerous green spaces and natural developments. A "flowered city" with three flowers in the competition of flowery towns and villages, Lyon has many parks and urban gardens appreciated by Lyonnais, and a hinterland rich in contrasts, between the Monts du Lyonnais to the south, the Val de Saône, the Monts d'Or and the Dombes plateau to the north.

Vélo'v is a self-service bicycle system set up in the Lyon metropolis and managed by JCDecaux since May 2005.

In this visualization we can have an idea of the residential places of Lyon and the offices where the Lyonnais work. Just look at the condition of the stations (available bikes/stands) on the slots where people are supposed to be at work or at home. However, these data are a weekly average, including weekends, so they should be taken with caution. Editor's note: Nevertheless, as a Lyonnais, I can assure you that this illustrates reality.

60% of Lyon's tourism turnover comes from business tourism and 40% from leisure tourism. 54% of tourists are foreigners. In January 2009, Lyon took first place in the French hotel market.

This visualization makes it possible to quantify a phenomenon expected in Lyon, and more generally in all the cities of the world: there are many modest places that satisfy customers, and on the other hand, few easy places that do not satisfy them.

The Lyon metro is one of the public transport systems serving the city of Lyon and its agglomeration. It consists of four lines named A, B, C and D to which are added two funicular lines named F1 and F2.

The first line opened on 9 December 1974 after the conversion of a funicular line into a rack railway, between the Croix-Paquet and Croix-Rousse stations. But the network was officially inaugurated on 28 April 1978 with the opening of two tyre lines. A fourth line with automatic control opened on 9 September 1991. Today, the network comprises forty stations for 32.05 km of dedicated lanes. Visitor numbers equal 196.93 million trips in 2014.

The funicular of Lyon represents all the railways with funicular traction having existed on the territory of the city of Lyon: because of its tormented topography, the city formerly had up to five funiculars, connecting the low districts with those of the hills of Fourvière and Croix-Rousse. Two funiculars remain today open for operation: the F1 (Saint-Jean - Saint-Just) and F2 (Saint-Jean - Fourvière) lines, incorporated into the Lyon metro.