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Lyon’s Gardens and Open-Air Places

Lyon’s Gardens and Open-Air Places

Lyon · France

7 stops9.1 km1 h 51 min
  • Audio guide
  • 4 languages
  • Offline

Follow a green, open-air route through Lyon, from the Jardin des Curiosités and the Parc des Hauteurs to broad public squares and riverside parks. You will encounter carefully made gardens, archaeological remains outdoors, and spacious places where the city opens out around you. The walk finishes at the expansive Parc de la Tête d'Or, making it a welcoming way to experience Lyon through its planted spaces and public landscapes.

The walk

Stops 1–6 of 7. The rest are in the app.

  1. Jardin des Curiosités

    Jardin des Curiosités

    A Montréal gift turned into a Lyon belvedere, with six sculpted chairs asking what you see.

  2. Parc des Hauteurs

    Parc des Hauteurs

    A hillside park that follows an old funeral tramway and protects Lyon’s Fourvière landscape

  3. Archaeological Garden

    Archaeological Garden

    Archaeological site and park in Lyon, France

  4. 1 more stop on this walk, in the app
  5. Place Bellecour

    Place Bellecour

    A royal square whose names, statues and paving record Lyon’s political history.

  6. Parc de la Cerisaie

    Parc de la Cerisaie

    A former cherry orchard turned hillside park, with a villa, contemporary art, and its own vineyard.

  7. Jardin Rosa Mir

    Jardin Rosa Mir

    A tiny Croix-Rousse courtyard transformed by one man's vow into a shell-covered garden.

  8. Stop 7

  9. 1 more stop in the app

Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places

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How a walk works

1 more stop in the app

This page shows the first 6 of 7 stops. The rest of the walk, and the guide who narrates it, are in the app.

  1. Pick a walk

    Every stop is a real place, already in walking order.

  2. Pocket your phone

    Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.

  3. Listen as you arrive

    On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.

See the whole walk in the app

Free to install · Every city’s featured walk is free, start to finish.

  • A guide who talks

    Narration at every stop, starting on its own as you arrive — phone in your pocket.

  • The route, followed

    A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.

  • In four languages

    English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.

  • Or build your own

    Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.

  • The unglamorous things

    Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.

  • No signal needed

    Download a walk before you go and it works under a souk roof or on a plane.

  • Picks up where you left off

    Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.