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City of Destination
The Presquile or “ peninsula’, lies at the center of Lyon, acts as a tongue of land between the rivers Saone and Rhone, just north of their confluence. Major of its parts lying within the 2e arrondissement and better known for its quartiers, includes Bellecour, around the central square, Perrache around the station. At the top end of the Presqu'île, as the Saône veers west, is the 1er arrondissement , known as Terreaux , centred on place des Terreaux and the Hôtel de Ville. On the west bank of the Saône is the old town, or Vieux Lyon, at the foot of Fourvière, on which the Romans built their capital of Gaul, Lugdunum. Vieux Lyon is made up of three villages: St-Paul, St-Jean and St-Georges, and forms the eastern end of the 5e arrondissement . The 9e lies to its north. Old silk-district of La Croix-Rousse, lies to the north of the Presquile. Modern Lyon lies east of the Rhône, with the 7e and 8e arrondissements to the south, the 3e arrondissement in the middle, with La Part-Dieu TGV station amidst an assertive cultural and commercial centre, and the 6e arrondissement , known as Brotteaux , to the north. Lyon’s main open space, the Parc de la Tete d’Or situated at the north of Brotteaux. The home of the university and the Theatre national Populaire, the famous district of Villeubanne, lies at the east of the 6e and the park.
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