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Arrival, information and city transport
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The
Lyon-St ExupAŠry international airport
(tel 04.72.22.72.21) and the new
TGV station
are off the Grenoble
autoroute
, 20km to the southeast of the city, with a 45-minute Satobus bus link to the town centre (50F/a?Ź7.53). 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'AŽle is used mainly for ordinary trains rather than TGVs, and has the gare routiA?re alongside; La Part-Dieu TGV station is in the 3e arrondissement to the east of the Presqu'AŽle. Central Lyon is linked to the suburbs by a modern, efficient and driverless mAŠtro , as well as a new tram system. There's a Bureau d'Information in the Centre Perrache at the station (July & Aug Mon-Fri 7.30am-6.30pm, Sat 9am-5pm; www.tcl.fr ), where you can pick up a mAŠtro, tram, bus and funicular map; it's just two stops on the mAŠtro to place Bellecour, where the central tourist office stands on the southeast corner (daily 10am-6pm; tel 04.72.77.69.69, www.lyon-france.com ). There is another office at 3 av Aristide-Briand in Villeurbanne (Mon-Fri 9.30am-5pm, Sat 9am-5pm; tel 04.78.68.13.20).
At mAŠtro stations or the city transport TCL offices, the cheapest way to buy
tickets
is in a carnet of ten (68F/a?Ź10.37, discounts for students), or there's the
Ticket LibertAŠ
, valid for 24 hours (24F/a?Ź3.66). The ordinary tickets (8F/a?Ź1.22) are flat-rate within an hour's duration and limited to three changes using any combination of transport. The mAŠtro runs from 5am to around midnight. Many bus lines close around 8pm. Other useful information
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France,
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