Lyon - Surroundings

25km/15mi west of Lyons is L'Arbresle (pop. 4,900), with the Dominican convent of Ste-Marie- de-la-Tourette, built by Le Corbusier in 1957-1959.

Southwest of Lyons is Chazelles-sur-Lyon (pop. 5,000), once famous as a hat- manufacturing town. The Musée du Chapeau (Hat Museum) is a mine of information on the hat-maker's craft, its importance to the region and fashions in hats.

11km/7mi north of Lyons is the Château de Rochetaillée, which now houses the interesting Musée Automobile Henri- Malartre, with more than 130 old cars, motorcycles and bicycles.

Must-see attractions nearby:

Lyon - Notre-Dame de Fourvière

Lyon - Place Bellecour

Lyon - Musée des Beaux-Arts

Lyon - Place des Terreaux

Lyon - Hôtel Dieu

Lyon - Central Station

Lyon - Palais de la Bourse

Related Attractions

Read More Bourg-en-Bresse, France

(Near Lyons)

Bourg-en-Bresse (pop. 40,628), the old capital of the district of Bresse, lies in southeastern Burgundy, on the western fringes of the French Jura. It is noted not only for the famous poulets de Bresse which are reared in this area but for a jewel of Gothic architecture, the monastic church of Brou.

Bourg was also the birthplace of the astronomer Gérome Lalande (1732-1807) and the historian Edgar Quinet (1803-1875).

Address: Bourg-en-Bresse Tourist Office, 6 avenue Alsace-Lorraine, F-01000 Bourg-en-Bresse, France
http://www.bourg-en-bresse.org

Monastery of Brou

(Near Lyons)

The monastery of Brou in Bourg-en-Bresse, which stands a little to the east of the church of Notre-Dame (15th- 16th C; beautiful carved choir-stalls), was begun in 1506, and the church was built between 1513 and 1532 by the Brussels architect Louis van Bodeghem for Margaret of Austria.

In the harmonious interior, which is entered through a richly decorated Renaissance doorway, are a magnificent rood screen and beautiful old stained glass. The choir has 74 fine carved oak stalls (1530-1532) and contains three tombs (in the center Duke Philibert II of Savoy, d. 1504; on the left his wife Margaret of Austria, d. 1530; on the right Margaret of Bourbon, d. 1483) and fine stained glass. On the left of the choir is the Chapelle de la Vierge, with a marble altar decorated with scenes from the life of the Virgin.

The cloisters and monastic cells now house a folk museum.

Address: Monastère de Brou à Bourg-en Bresse, 63, boulevard de Brou, F-01000 Bourg-en-Bresse, France
http://brou.monuments-nationaux.fr

Hours:

April 1 to June 30: 9am-12:30pm, 2pm-6pm

July 1 to September 30: 9am-6pm

October 1 to March 31: 9am-12:30pm, 2pm-5pm

Always closed on: New Year's Day (January 1), May Day / Labor Day (May 1), All Saints' Day - Christian (November 1), Remembrance Day / 1918 Armistice Day (November 11), Christmas - Christian (December 25)

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