Lyon, much more than the “world capital of gastronomy”!
Of course, the city is proud of this title, bestowed upon Lyon in the XIXth century by the famous critic Curnonsky, but the city of Lyon, which is home to the Institut Paul Bocuse, is much more than that.
Since 1998, Lyon has been registered on the UNESCO world heritage roster, and has managed perfect symbiosis between the value given to tradition and the city’s illustrious past and its mastery of the most recent innovations …
Since the Renaissance, Lyon has positioned itself as a world-class economic and cultural center, whose old quarter of Saint Jean, which was that of the bankers from Florence in former times, is a vestige still full of life.
Lyon long used its business savvy in trading and industry (namely textiles and especially silk) to serve its purposes and to become one of the best performers in the XIXth century economically speaking; it was later able to maintain its advances and adapt to progress rather than being subjected to it.
A crossroads of Europe, Lyon excels in many diverse fields such as biotechnologies, information and communication technologies, fashion, the environment and clean-tech industries.
Lyon is a top-notch university town (first after Paris) that welcomes more than 125,000 students annually including many foreign students. Lyon fosters their integration through its quality structures and its dynamism.
Thanks to its many assets, Lyon is quickly gaining international importance and continues to benefit from its strategic geographic situation - ideally located in the Rhone river valley, linking Paris, Geneva and the French Riviera... Lyon’s lifestyle opportunities confer it with a serious and increasingly recognized competitive advantage.
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