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Cultural weekend or tremendous entertainments, there's always something going on: exhibitions, museums, unusual cultural sites to explore and festival venues to share. In the day, at night, in both big and small towns, there is always something to discover in Rhône-Alpes...  

Precious

Silk shopping

Silk shopping
It was in 1540 that François 1st entitled Lyon to start the task of silk manufacturing, setting up a factory in this city. But we are not talking about an ancestral or out of date activity, on the contrary. Between the Rhône and Saône rivers, silk is still alive and there are lots of places where you shop cheaply if silk squares and fabric come directly from the workshops.

Tags : Fashion and accessories

Angels

Baroque art in Savoie is brilliant, sumptuous and religious

Baroque art in Savoie is brilliant, sumptuous and religious
Take a walk to discover churches and baroque chapels in the Hautes Vallées of Savoie is one of the most gratifying experiences which exist.  There are more than eighty open to visit, all over the Alps!
Tags : Exhibitions and heritage

Clay

At Cliousclat, It is the market of potters

For 3 centuries, the village of Cliousclat in Drôme has been the king of the lathe. Understand by there, the potter's wheel, because the clay, which can be found all around, is ideal to manufacture the multi-purpose glazed pottery pieces. A good and unique idea to decorate the shelves of the kitchen !
Tags : Decoration

Secret

The amazing tour in the traboules of Lyon

The amazing tour in the traboules of Lyon
It is one of the charms and, not the least of the old districts of Lyon. To discover its history and its architecture, you can walk while following the traboules of Vieux Lyon and Croix Rousse. A permanent amazement!
Tags : Exhibitions and heritage

Frescoes

Life in paint on the walls

Life in paint on the walls
It is an authentic popular, architectural and urban heritage which livens up the city Lyon. It is an immense open-air art gallery in colour and in trompe l'oeil style that Lyonnais citizens are proud to show to everyone that they welcome. Unique in the world, Lyon's painted walls have received many awards, and make the capital of Rhône-Alpes, with Berlin and Mexico, the City of monumental frescoes of everyday life.
Tags : Culture and Outings | Exhibitions and heritage

Super-chef's hats

Paul Bocuse, stared chefs’ boss

Paul Bocuse, stared chefs’ boss
Paul Bocuse is not only the great chef, known the world over, he is also a generous character who knows how to take young chefs as well as worthy producers under his wing.  He wants to bring great cuisine within everyone's reach. This is what he does with his brasseries scattered about the four corners of Lyon and nowhere else.
Tags : Restaurants and chefs

First Film

Institut Lumière : The temple of cinema

Institut Lumière : The temple of cinema
Because it was in Lyon that the Frères Lumière, who had a predestined surname, invented cinema, the town had to celebrate them in a place that gathers both the memory and the future of cinema. This has been done since 1982 with the Institut Lumière which also regularly welcomes numerous directors who come with pleasure when it is a question of celebrating the cinema.
Tags : Cinema and theatre

Cherubs

Christmas and Snow Pleasures

Christmas and Snow Pleasures
Villard de Lans and Corrençon en Vercors form a family resort in which Christmas is always a special day because everything is done there to make children's eyes sparkle.
Tags : Activities

Candle lights

Delight and lights

Delight and lights
Every year Lyon has to renew its Light Festival so that it is even more beautiful, more intimate, and more poetic and so that it gathers more actors, and also more spectators already coming in their millions from all over the world.
Tags : Festivals

Urban

Discover Grenoble with an MP3

Discover Grenoble with an MP3
The greatest city of the Alps is not only rich in mountains which surround it, it also offers to the visitor, a rich cultural, architectural and historical heritage. It welcomes tourists with a top level system of bookings and fixed prices ...
Tags : Exhibitions and heritage

Documentation

Rhône-Alpes : Magazine autumn 

Rhône-Alpes : industrial, scientific and technichal tourism 

Shopping in Rhône-Alpes

Silk in Rhône-Alpes

 

"L'Ain, des révélations croustillantes", general guide 

Ain : practical guide

The Bresse road

The Dombes road

 

Ardèche : practical guide 

Charming villages in Ardèche

 

"Rediscover yourselves in the Drôme", general guide

Drôme : practical guide
Drôme : festivals
Drôme : events & exhibitions 

 

Montélimar : practical guide

Nyons : practical guide 

Valence : practical guide 

"Secrets de Terroir" in Drôme Provençale 

 

Isère : practical guide

Isère : tourist routes

Isère : festivals

Parc de Chartreuse : practical guide

 

Loire : practical guide

 

Lyon & Rhône : leisure guide 

"Secrets de Terroir" in Beaujolais

 

Savoie Mont Blanc : Magazine summer

 

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