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The international airport, Lyon-St Exupery and the new TGV station are off the Grenoble auto route, situated at the 20km from the southeast of the city, with a 45 minutes Satobus link to the town centre. ). The Paris to Lyon trip is actually quicker by TGV, but it's only from the air that you can appreciate architect Santiago Calatrava's design of a huge bird alighting or taking flight from the station roof. Central Lyon has two train stations: the Gare de Perrache on the Presqu'île is used mainly for ordinary trains rather than TGVs, and has the gare routière alongside; La Part-Dieu TGV station is in the 3e arrondissement to the east of the Presqu'île. Central Lyon is linked to the suburbs by a modern, efficient and driverless metro, as well as a new tram system. There's a Bureau d'Information in the Centre Perrache at the station, where you can pick up a metro, tram, bus and funicular map; it's just two stops on the metro to place Bellecour, where the central tourist office stands on the southeast corner. One of the cheapest ways of buying tickets from the metro station or from the city transport TCL offices is in a carnet of ten, or there's the Ticket Liberté , valid for 24 hours. The ordinary tickets) are flat-rate within an hour's duration and limited to three changes using any combination of transport.

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