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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.
At the entrance of the street, there was a famous bathhouse called "Le Clavecin", built by Gary. [who?] After the death of French King Louis XIV, the street was named Rue de la Convention, then in 1848 Rue de Démocratie for a short while, [3] and Rue Nationale in 1850. In 1792, Mayor of Lyon Antoine Nivière-Chol (1744-1817) lived in the street.
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).
The nine arrondissements of Lyon Arrondissements of Lyon The 6th arrondissement of Lyon ( French : 6 e arrondissement de Lyon ) is one of the nine arrondissements of the City of Lyon .
In 1984, the Lyon Fair was moved from its original location upstream of the quays of the Rhône near Parc de la Tete d'Or to Chassieu to become the Eurexpo.The vacant land was used to build Cité Internationale, which includes the Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon, cinemas, an auditorium, the Palais des congrès de Lyon and the global headquarters of Interpol.
It follows the line of the Route nationale 6 and is a link between the Rhône to the Saône rivers. It crosses the hill of la Croix-Rousse. The roadway was composed of 2 x 2 routes with no real separation of roadways until the construction of a central wall in 1999. Its use is only for vehicles with weights less than 3.5 tonnes.
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). The most significant ...
[1] Since 2020, the city council, comprising 150 members [ 2 ] (instead of the 166 originally planned in the ministerial ordinance before its review in parliament), [ 3 ] is elected at the same time as the municipal councils by direct universal suffrage [ 4 ] within the framework of 14 electoral constituencies [ 5 ] according to the voting ...