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The Urban Community of Lyon (French: Communauté urbaine de Lyon), also known as Grand Lyon (i.e. "Greater Lyon") or by its former acronym COURLY, is the former intercommunal structure gathering the city of Lyon and some of its suburbs. It was created in January 1969. [1] The Metropolis of Lyon replaced the Urban Community on 1 January 2015.
Unlike the case in either a communauté d'agglomération or communauté de communes, communes cannot leave a communauté urbaine freely. As of April 2018, there are 11 communautés urbaines in France (all in metropolitan France), with a combined population of 2.43 million inhabitants (as of 2015, in 2018 limits).
Réseau Express de l'Aire métropolitaine Lyonnaise (or Real) is a project that consists in improving and unifying some railways lines in the Lyon metropolitan area.It is said to be a "RER à la lyonnaise" ("RER in the style of Lyon", referencing the Réseau Express Régional or RER in Paris and the wider Île-de-France).
Communauté urbaine de Lyon (1992), "schéma d'aménagement des Berges de la Saône et du Rhône", Plan bleu (in French), Communauté Urbaine de Lyon, p. 77 Desgrandchamps, Valérie (2009), Les berges du Rhône à Lyon (in French), S. Bachès, p. 85, ISBN 978-2-35752-017-2
The Metropolis of Lyon (French: Métropole de Lyon, pronounced [metʁɔpɔl də ljɔ̃] ⓘ), also known as Grand Lyon ([ɡʁɑ̃ ljɔ̃], "Greater Lyon"), is a French territorial collectivity in the east-central region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. It is a directly-elected metropolitan authority, encompassing both the city of Lyon, and
Métropoles on map. A métropole (French pronunciation: [metʁɔpɔl] ⓘ; French for "metropolis") is an administrative entity in France, in which several communes cooperate, and which has the right to levy local tax, an établissement public de coopération intercommunale à fiscalité propre.
The following is a list of the 58 communes of the Lyon Metropolis, France. [1] INSEE code Postal code Commune 69003 ... La Tour-de-Salvagny: 69256 69120 Vaulx-en ...
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.