In its designation, UNESCO cited the "exceptional testimony to the continuity of urban settlement over more than two millennia on a site of great commercial and strategic significance. The highest recorded temperature was 40.5 °C (104.9 °F) on 13 August 2003 while the lowest recorded temperature was −24.6 °C (−12.3 °F) on 22 December 1938.[29]. [55], The city of Lyon and 58 suburban municipalities have formed since 2015 the Metropolis of Lyon, a directly elected metropolitan authority now in charge of most urban issues, with a population of 1,385,927 in 2017.[11]. [46] Renowned 3-star Michelin chefs such as Marie Bourgeois[47] and Eugénie Brazier[48] developed Lyonnaise cuisine into a national phenomenon favoured by the French elite; a tradition which Paul Bocuse later turned into a worldwide success. The metro area population of Lyon in 2018 was 1,690,000 , a 0.9% increase from 2017. There are also communities in Lagos made up of ex-slaves from the Americas and from Sierra Leone, where they were of Afro-Brazilian and Afro-Cuban descent. International trains operate directly to Madrid, Barcelona, Milan, Turin, Geneva, Frankfurt, Luxembourg, Brussels and London. Lyon is served by the Eurolines intercity coach organisation. Within each arrondissement, the recognisable quartiers or neighbourhoods are: Geographically, Lyon's two main rivers, the Saône and the Rhône, divide the arrondissements into three groups: This is a list of mayors of the commune of Lyon since the end of the 19th century.

[49], The bouchon is a traditional Lyonnais restaurant that serves local fare such as sausages, duck pâté or roast pork, along with local wines. Some agglomerations have more than one central city (e.g., "The Ruhr"). [26] Fourvière, along with portions of the Presqu'île and much of La Croix-Rousse, is designated as a UNESCO World Heritage site.[27]. Si vous continuez à utiliser ce dernier, nous considérerons que vous acceptez l'utilisation des cookies. Du fait du contexte sanitaire, la Métropole de Lyon a annoncé l’annulation de l’édition 2020 de cette opération visant à promouvoir l’usage du vélo. [10] As of 2011, 14% of its population was born outside Metropolitan France. Lagos has continued to heavily invest in education infrastructure in the country and almost 12% of the state budget for 2017 (a sum of almost just over 92 billion naira) was allocated to the education sector.
[52] OL operates a women's team, Olympique Lyonnais Féminin, which competes in and dominates Division 1 Féminine. The noted food critic Curnonsky referred to the city as "the gastronomic capital of the world",[45] a claim repeated by later writers such as Bill Buford. Unfortunately, Lagos’ and Nigeria's meteoric growth means that resources and housing continue to be spread thin and much of the population struggles with poverty. Créée le 1er janvier 2015, la métropole de Lyon remplace la communauté urbaine de Lyon et, dans le territoire de celle-ci, le département du Rhône. The city became an important industrial town in the 19th century. The average distance people usually ride in a single trip with public transit is 4.7 km, while 4% travel for over 12 km in a single direction. Chart and table of population level and growth rate for the Lyon, France metro area from 1950 to 2020. The Villeurbanne ward is coterminous with the namesake commune. Its metropolitan council was for the first time directly elected by universal suffrage in 2020 within 14 electoral wards, the only directly elected metropolitan council in France.

The following is a list of the twenty largest aires urbaines (metropolitan areas) in France, based on their population at the 2016 census. List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants (2006 census), List of metropolitan areas in Europe by population, "Un maillage du territoire français - Insee Première - 1333", "Bulletin officiel du Ministère de l'intérieur", "L'Automobile en Seine-et-Oise : revue mensuelle : organe du Club automobile de Seine-et-Oise", "Villes et communes de France − Tableaux de l'économie française | Insee", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Urban_area_(France)&oldid=977896674, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 11 September 2020, at 16:50. The OL women have also won the UEFA Women's Champions League seven times, including the five most recent editions from 2016 to 2020. The icon links to further information about a selected division including its population structure … To the east of the Rhône, are the third, sixth, seventh, and eighth arrondissements. Nous utilisons des cookies pour vous garantir la meilleure expérience sur notre site. [19] To this day, the archbishop of Lyon is still referred to as "Primat des Gaules".[20]. Fernand Braudel remarked, "Historians of Lyon are not sufficiently aware of the bi-polarity between Paris and Lyon, which is a constant structure in French development...from the late Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution". Bhiwandi, Kalyan, Thane, Ulhasnagar, Vasai-Virar, incl. According to the historian Dio Cassius, in 43 BC, the Roman Senate ordered the creation of a settlement for Roman refugees of war with the Allobroges. The Romans recognised that Lugdunum's strategic location at the convergence of two navigable rivers made it a natural communications hub. The Patinoire Charlemagne is the seat of Club des Sports de Glace de Lyon, the club of Olympic ice dancing champions Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat, and world champions Isabelle Delobel and Olivier Shoenfelder. There are also two funicular lines from Vieux Lyon to Saint-Just and Fourvière. The city contains a significant software industry with a particular focus on video games, and in recent years has fostered a growing local start-up sector. Lyon has a long and chronicled culinary arts tradition. In 50 years, the city went from just 1.3 million inhabitants to the 14 million it has today and shows no sign of stopping. Until 1991, it was also the capital of Nigeria until Abuja replaced Lagos as the federal capital. In 1572, Lyon was a scene of mass violence by Catholics against Protestant Huguenots in the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre.

[38] Cité Internationale, created by the architect Renzo Piano is located in the border of the Parc de la Tête d'Or in the 6th arrondissement. Les finales nationales de Lyon, qui avaient été reportées en décembre 2020, se dérouleront finalement en 2021, suite au passage de la Métropole de Lyon en zone d’alerte maximale.

The Lyon bus network consists of the Lyon trolleybus system, motorbuses, and coaches for areas outside the centre. Other traditional local dishes include coq au vin; quenelle; gras double; salade lyonnaise (lettuce with bacon, croûtons and a poached egg); and the sausage-based rosette lyonnaise and andouillette. The aire urbaine is built from France's nationwide interlocking administrative commune municipalities: when a commune has over 2000 inhabitants and contains a centre of dense construction (buildings spaced no more than 200 metres apart), it is combined with other adjoining communes fulfilling the same criteria to become a single unité urbaine ("urban unit"[2]); if an urban unit offers over 10,000 jobs and its economical development is enough to draw more than 40% of the population of a nearby municipalities (and other municipalities drawn to these in the same way) as commuters, it becomes a pôle urbain ("urban cluster"[3]) and the "commuter municipalities" become its couronne ("rim"[4]), but this only on the condition that the urban unit itself is not part of another urban cluster's rim. Lyon is also home to the Lyon Hockey Club, an ice hockey team that competes in France's national ice hockey league. Elle exerce à la fois les compétences d'un département et celles d'une métropole, pour les 59 communes qui la composent au 1er janvier 2018. The population development of Lyon as well as related information and services (Wikipedia, Google, images). CTM Style prend à bail 884 m² de locaux à Caluire, Villeurbanne adopte la Déclaration des droits des personnes sans-abri, Contrôle des installations classées « Seveso seuil haut » sur 5 sites, La Fabric’, Grand prix régional des pyramides d’argent de la FPI, Renaud Payre, vice-président de la Métropole chargé de l’habitat, du logement social et de la politique de la ville : « Nous avons un objectif volontariste », Renaud Payre, nouveau président de l’OFS métropolitain, Doucet et Bernard signataires d’une lettre ouverte pour la baisse des émissions, Lyon et Francfort célèbrent leurs 60 ans de jumelage, Philippe Pelletier reconduit à la présidence du Plan bâtiment durable, Un jury citoyen et des événements pour relancer la Cité de la gastronomie, La Métropole de Lyon veut le retour d’une régie publique de l’eau, Report des finales nationales des Worldskills, Mably : Valoris installe Lidl dans un local de 1.490 m², Deux femmes à la barre du Sytral et des TCL, Saint-Fons : un contrôle préventif incendie organisé sur le site Elkem Silicones, Les Coulisses du Bâtiment organisées les 8 et 9 octobre par la FFB, Thierry Kovacs reste président du SMT AML, Grenoble : ouverture de la plus grande voie de covoiturage de France, A Villeurbanne, 1ère opération de piétonisation hors de Lyon, Un week-end piéton élargi à Lyon, avec «La voie est libre», Calculez votre mensualité de crédit immobilier, Lyon : les prix de l’immobilier continuent de flamber, Premier contrat de performance énergétique pour la Ville de Lyon, En France aussi, l’état de santé des ponts se détériore, Agriculture périurbaine : un appel à projets de la Métropole de Lyon.
High-tech industries such as biotechnology, software development, video game (Arkane Studios, Ivory Tower, Eden Games, EA France, Bandai Namco Entertainment Europe), and internet services are also growing. C’est 283.294 habitants de plus que les chiffres arrêtés au 1er janvier 2014. Since the Middle Ages, the region residents have spoken several dialects of Franco-Provençal. An aire urbaine (literal and official translation: "urban area")[1] is an INSEE (France's national statistics bureau) statistical concept describing a core of urban development and the extent of its commuter activity. In 1831 and 1834, the canuts (silk workers) of Lyon staged two major uprisings for better working conditions and pay. Bruno Bernard a rencontré ce mardi l’ensemble des membres du fonds de dotation de la Cité de la gastronomie. Lyon or Lyons (UK: /ˈliːɒ̃/,[5][6] US: /liˈoʊn/,[7][8][c] French: [ljɔ̃] (listen); Francoprovençal: Liyon, pronounced [ʎjɔ̃]; Italian: Lione, pronounced [liˈone]) is the third-largest city and second-largest urban area of France. United Nations population projections are also included through the year 2035. Popular local confections include marron glacé and coussin de Lyon. The building is strongly linked to. The Convention ordered that its name be changed to "Liberated City", and a plaque was erected that proclaimed "Lyons made war on Liberty; Lyons no longer exists". Find out what statistics the population of the country, city, district on All-populations.com. Lyon has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen: Cfa), bordering on an oceanic climate (Cfb) due to the higher average temperature being around 22 °C. Its Lyon terminal is located at the city's Perrache railway station, which serves as an intermodal transportation hub for tramways, local and regional trains and buses, the terminus of Metro line A, of the Tramway T2, the bicycle service Vélo'v, and taxis. There are as many as 1.4 million students in these private schools, more than all the students currently attending public school in Lagos. Opponents said it diluted the voice of the small suburban communes, which are now part of large electoral wards and dot not each possess a representative in the metropolitan council anymore.