Discover France. Includes FREE planning and background information. Gourmets, eat your heart out: Lyon is the gastronomic capital of France, with lavish piggydriven dishes, delicacies to savour, and a bounty of eating spaces. Be it an old-fashioned bistro with checked tablecloths and slipper-shuffling grandmas or smart, minimalist space with state-of-the-art furnishings and chic city-slicker crowd, this French cuisine king thrills. Throw two mighty rivers, majestic Roman amphitheatres and elegant Renaissance architecture into the pot and the city will have you captivated. Most travellers turn up here unexpectedly , are pleasantly surprised and instantly yearn to return. Plumb at the crossroads to central Europe and the Atlantic, the Rhineland and the Mediterranean, the Rh?ne Valley has been the envy of many a soul for centuries. Ensnaring the Rh?ne River on its 813km-long journey from Lake Geneva to the Mediterranean, the valley forges downstream from Lyon past Gallo-Roman ruins at Vienne , nougat-making workshops in Mont?limar and an extraordinary wealth of centuries-old C?tes du Rh?ne vineyards from which some of France?s most respected reds are born.
Discover France. Includes FREE planning and background information. Gourmets, eat your heart out: Lyon is the gastronomic capital of France, with lavish piggydriven dishes, delicacies to savour, and a bounty of eating spaces. Be it an old-fashioned bistro with checked tablecloths and slipper-shuffling grandmas or smart, minimalist space with state-of-the-art furnishings and chic city-slicker crowd, this French cuisine king thrills. Throw two mighty rivers, majestic Roman amphitheatres and elegant Renaissance architecture into the pot and the city will have you captivated. Most travellers turn up here unexpectedly , are pleasantly surprised and instantly yearn to return. Plumb at the crossroads to central Europe and the Atlantic, the Rhineland and the Mediterranean, the Rh?ne Valley has been the envy of many a soul for centuries. Ensnaring the Rh?ne River on its 813km-long journey from Lake Geneva to the Mediterranean, the valley forges downstream from Lyon past Gallo-Roman ruins at Vienne , nougat-making workshops in Mont?limar and an extraordinary wealth of centuries-old C?tes du Rh?ne vineyards from which some of France?s most respected reds are born.