Lyon Travel Guide 2026: Explore France's culture, culinary, through local stories, and unforgettable experiences with map and beautiful pictures
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Lyon Travel Guide 2026: Explore France's culture, culinary, through local stories, and unforgettable experiences with map and beautiful pictures
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$16.99
Regular price $20.99
Lyon is France's best-kept secret, and Richard Byrne is finally blowing the lid off it. In this vivid, page-turning travel guide, Byrne takes you by the hand through the cobbled lanes of a city that has been quietly outclassing Paris in food, culture, and sheer liveable beauty for centuries — while the world looked the other way.
This is not your typical city guide. Richard Byrne writes the way a brilliant friend talks — honest, funny, deeply informed, and completely unable to resist telling you the one thing nobody else mentions. Where other guides give you landmarks, Byrne gives you the unmarked door behind the landmark, and the story of what's inside it.
From the silk-weaving history of Croix-Rousse to the secret traboule passageways of Vieux Lyon, from the Michelin-starred kitchens of the Presqu'île to the floating wine bars on the Rhône, Richard Byrne navigates every corner of this extraordinary city with the confidence of a local and the curiosity of someone falling in love for the first time.
What makes this guide different:
"Lyon will surprise you, feed you, and change the way you think about travel. It changed me," writes Byrne in his closing pages. "I went for a week. I'm still going back."
Whether you have two days or two weeks, whether this is your first trip to France or your fifteenth, Lyon Travel Guide by Richard Byrne is the only companion you need.
This is not your typical city guide. Richard Byrne writes the way a brilliant friend talks — honest, funny, deeply informed, and completely unable to resist telling you the one thing nobody else mentions. Where other guides give you landmarks, Byrne gives you the unmarked door behind the landmark, and the story of what's inside it.
From the silk-weaving history of Croix-Rousse to the secret traboule passageways of Vieux Lyon, from the Michelin-starred kitchens of the Presqu'île to the floating wine bars on the Rhône, Richard Byrne navigates every corner of this extraordinary city with the confidence of a local and the curiosity of someone falling in love for the first time.
What makes this guide different:
- Hidden Lyon, uncovered: Byrne goes far beyond the tourist trail — secret viewpoints, unmarked passages, and neighborhoods the brochures never mention.
- Food like nowhere else: A full deep-dive into bouchon culture, the city's legendary markets, and exactly how to eat in France's gastronomic capital.
- Live 2026 events calendar: Nuits de Fourvière, Fête des Lumières, Nuits Sonores — every major event with insider booking advice from Richard Byrne.
- Works for every budget: Whether you're on a shoestring or splurging on Michelin stars, Byrne has a route, a restaurant, and a recommendation for you.
- Three ready-to-use itineraries: 2-day, 4-day, and 7-day plans crafted by Richard Byrne so you never waste a single precious hour in the city.
- Day trips worth the detour: Beaujolais vineyards, Roman Vienne, medieval Pérouges, the Gorges de l'Ardèche — all within easy reach, all planned out.
"Lyon will surprise you, feed you, and change the way you think about travel. It changed me," writes Byrne in his closing pages. "I went for a week. I'm still going back."
Whether you have two days or two weeks, whether this is your first trip to France or your fifteenth, Lyon Travel Guide by Richard Byrne is the only companion you need.