Second city of France.
Source of many of the worlds great foods including all those ones that start or end lyonaise , like potato lyonaise , lyonaise sauce.

Contains many good pubs and bars as well as places to eat.

Not a place to go clubbing in since the scene is very bad. They still haven't got beyond techno when everyone else is changing the beats

Still, you can find yourself just starting to make your way home on Saturday morning at 10am, which can't be bad.

Also referred as the city of two rivers, because, guess, they have two rivers in the city! There was a stupid superstition about Lyon, some Nostradamus interpreter tought that, in one of his quatrains, he was referring to Lyon as the... city of two rivers
The second part of the "joke" is that the interpreter predicted pope John Paul II would be murdered there, at 13 december 1999.
Woah, cowboy! We are at 2001(talking about this, 2001: Why don't we have HAL?) and pope still keeps going. Well, maybe he is decrepit by now, but still keeps going...