France s top 9 destinations that are not Paris Can you guess where this building is? Hint: it s our number one in this top. - Copyright PHILIPPE MERLE / AFP By
• Updated: 27/04/2021 - 17:27
When you think about Paris, France’s capital of love, lights and arts, the sweet sound of the accordion from the movie ‘Amelie’ might start playing in your mind.
But when you add 30 million annual tourists to the city’s 2,2 million inhabitants, you get a sense of how the city got so busy.
So, as the saying goes, make like a tree and leave.
These nine French cities are worthy competitors to Paris, while also being cheaper, less crowded and easier to navigate.
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The Old Town in Lyon’s 5th arrondissement is a showcase of the city’s strength. Here, things still stand almost exactly how they stood when silk weavers and wealthy merchants walked the town’s cobbled streets back in the Middle Ages.
The 11th Century choir school is still there, and so is the 15th Century inn. A door frame in a building dating back to the 13th Century is sagging, one side of it higher than the other, but still intact.
Built at the foot of a hill, history feels like it’s literally stacked on top of itself in this town, weaved together by narrow steps, dark alleyways, and the feature that sets Vieux Lyon apart from other European medieval cities: its traboules.
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ADIDAS A-ZX ZX5000 VIEUX LYON continues the now-legendary A-ZX series for 2021 with a very deluxe edition of the ZX 5000 model.
2008 saw the launch of the first adidas A-ZX campaign, with special releases from a wide range of partners across a variety of different models. Revisiting the concept once again for 20020/21, adidas have designed the 26 collaborative and commemorative releases to fit within a periodic table reference device, making it easy to see who’s involved with what. For this next member of the series, the letter V, the design references the French town of Vieux Lyon in France, featuring the town’s highly-regarded Jacquard weaving technique throughout the design. Various patterns are woven into the fabric across the upper section, with the colours of