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Lyon - France
Lyon is a town in eastern France, in the region's Rhone nightmare at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône. The town center has 445,400 inhabitants, the conurbation 1,348,800 inhabitants, what Lyon makes the second largest conurbation of France to Paris.
Lyon is the capital the region's Rhône nightmare and the Départements Rhône. The town is regarded as a French capital of the catering trade as a town of the silk and the light. The inhabitants of Lyon celebrate this one Fête the lumières at which thousands of candles and lanterns are put into the windows ' every year on December 8th.
Lyon is towered above by two hills: Fourvière which rises behind the cathedral of St-Jean and and their substances webten the basilica Sainte-Marie de Fourvière was built on the top 1871 and where the canuts, the Lyon silk weavers, created, La Croix-Rousse, the silk.
Story of Lyon
Lyon became 43 before Chr. founded by the romans under the name Lugdunum as a center Galliens; there was, however, already a keltische settlement before. This roll held the town more than three centuries before its meaning declined in the course of the decline of the Roman empire.
In the year 177 became here the martyr Blandina burned whom one made the town patron of Lyon later. There was a school in the late antiquity here at which Sidonius Apollinaris among other things also studied; Lyon was diocese or archbishopric early, too. The town fell to the Burgunden and 461 king residence remained up to the Franconian conquest 534. The town became, coming from Spain 725 of the arabs this one invaded the franc empire devastatedly.
Only in the 11th century Lyon attained greater supraregional importance than the Roman Catholic church awarded the headquarters to the town about Gallien which it has certainly today again. The cardinal of Lyon is still the head of the Roman Catholic church in France.
1032, like also the entire kingdom Arelat, fell the town saint Roman Reich to which. Lyon because of the silk trade experienced a renewed development push in the renaissance. The plague raged, however, also in Lyon, 1348 which 1310 had been occupied of French troops.
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