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The Lyon Center or Lyon Recreation Center is a student recreational facility and part-time varsity athletics facility located on the campus of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. [1]
Lyon [c] (Franco-Provençal: Liyon) is the second-largest city in France by urban area and the third largest by city limits. [14] It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, 391 km (243 mi) southeast of Paris, 278 km (173 mi) north of Marseille, 113 km (70 mi) southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, 58 km (36 mi) northeast of Saint-Étienne.
The dock on the Rhone was among the first built ones in Lyon from 1739 to 1745, between the convent of Les Cordeliers who owned a facade, and the Pont de la Guillotière. The south part of the convent was then named quai et port des Cordeliers.
The Centre Tola Vologe was the training center and club headquarters of French football club Olympique Lyonnais. It is located in the city of Lyon, not far from the Stade de Gerland. The facility is named after Anatole Vologe, commonly called Tola Vologe, who was a Lyon sportsmen and was murdered by the Gestapo during World War II.
It used to be one of Europe's largest downtown shopping center when it opened on 8 September 1975. The mall is located at a major public transit hub including Lyon Part-Dieu railway station (the busiest in France outside Paris ), métro line B , tramway lines T1 , T3 and T4 as well as the Rhônexpress rail link to the airport and TGV station of ...
In addition to the Palais des Congrès de Lyon, the "Cité internationale" includes an underground public parking of 1,200 places, an exhibition area of 5,400 m 2, ten new rooms of commissions of 1,500 m 2, a residential hotel, two 4-star hotels, several restaurants, a center and a 4000-m 2 tertiary public square.
The Rhônexpress tram connects Lyon-Part-Dieu to Lyon–Saint-Exupéry Airport, located in Colombier-Saugnieu, whose train station is only served by the high-speed train network. In spring 2018, major reconstruction and refurbishment works began to rebuild the entire station and its near surroundings by 2022. [ 3 ]
During World War II, Lyon was the center of the French Resistance. Klaus Barbie (the "Butcher of Lyon") tortured prisoners for the occupying German forces, for which he was ultimately convicted of crimes against humanity. The post-war period marked the beginning of the race for modernity with a new challenge, the construction of Europe.