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incorporates an excellent
local history museum
covering the city's layout as its
silk-weaving, cinema and transportation evolved, and an
international puppet mu-
seum
paying homage to Lyon's iconic puppet, Guignol. On the 4th floor a
café
ad-
joins tranquil, terraced
gardens
, here since the 14th century and laid out two cen-
turies later.
LE PETIT MUSÉE FANTASTIQUE DE GUIGNOL
Puppet Museum
(
www.lamaisondeguignol.fr
,
in French; 6 rue St-Jean, 5e; adult/child €5/3;
11am-6.30pm Tue-Sun; Vieux Lyon)
Guignol is the star of this tiny, two-room mu-
seum with cute, sensor-activated exhibits; ask staff to set up the English
soundtrack.
MUSÉE DES MINIATURES ET DÉCORS DU CINÉMA
Film Museum
(
www.mimlyon.com
, in French; 60 rue St-Jean, 5e; adult/child €7/5.50;
10am-6.30pm Tue-Fri, 10am-7pm Sat & Sun; Vieux Lyon)
This maze-like museum
on tourist-busy rue St-Jean provides an unusual insight into the making of movie
sets and special effects achieved with the use of miniatures.
Fourvière
Over two millennia ago the Romans built the city of Lugdunum on the slopes of
Eiffel Tower-like structure (minus its bottom two-thirds) built in 1893 and used as a
TV transmitter.
Footpaths wind uphill, but the
funicular
(return ticket €2.40;
Vieux Lyon)
is a
less-taxing way up.
BASILIQUE NOTRE DAME DE FOURVIÈRE
Basilica
( 04 78 25 86 19;
www.fourviere.org
;
chapel 7am-7pm, basilica 8am-7pm)
Crowning the hill - with stunning city panoramas from its terrace - this 66m-long,
19m-wide and 27m-high basilica is lined with intricate mosaics and a superb ex-
ample of late-19th-century French ecclesiastical architecture. One-hour
discovery
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