Greater Lyon, an area where major events are held
In its streets, at the Cité Internationale, at Eurexpo, at the Halle Tony Garnier and in the Gallo-Roman amphitheaters of Fourvière, the city of Lyon welcomes major business, curltural and sporting events.
Lyon events calendar
Decision-makers and large firms never fail to turn up
Lyon remains strategically placed to debate, sell, buy, compare, share: BioVision, Print’Or, Sirha (international hotel, catering, and food exhibition), the G8 Summit, etc.
The decision-makers and large firms never fail to turn up!
From the silver screen to the digital screen
As the birthplace of cinema, Lyon is famous for hosting numerous shoots and lending significant support to the entire visual arts industry.
Indeed, this is attested to by the Imaginove competitiveness cluster, dedicated to the "image-based markets" of cinema, audiovisuals, animation, interactivity and video games.
Further signs of Lyon's vitality in the domain of audiovisual creation are:
- the relocation of the Cartoon Movie forum for the European production of long animated films from Berlin to Lyon in 2009 and
- the creation of Pictures, a new video-gaming and animation festival
Cultural ans sporting events
Life in Lyon is set to the rhythm of an events calendar overflowing with thrilling, fascinating events, season after season, year after year: December 8th Festival, Nuits Sonores, Nuits de Fourvières, Festival de the Baroque Music Festival, international Film Festival, etc.
Sports in Lyon means: Olympique Lyonnais (winner of the French soccer championships 7 years in a row and the pride of all Lyonnais), the ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne basketball team and the Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon professional tennis tournament, which each year attracts the world's top players! Then there's the Lyon Marathon, the Lyon Free VTT mountain-bike festival and the Charbonnières car rally...
An accessible, dynamic, city connected to the world
- 5.5 million visitors per year
- Exceptional heritage and quality of life
- First-class economic environment
- Large-scale hotel projects
Discover large-scale structures that make Lyon home to France’s 2nd largest surface area specifically dedicated to hosting exhibitions and trade shows, the map of exhibition and convention centres, etc.
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