France · WALKING TOURS IN LYON
Good walking tours in Lyon fill up weeks ahead and the great ones go first. Below: the 14 to book early, what each includes and how they differ.
Review of Lyon’s Vieux Lyon walking tour, with traboules, silk history, food tips, WW2 stories, practical details, and honest value advice.
“Paul has an easy and engaging style, while sharing information about the city. He is well informed and researched and makes the tour interesting. Paul also gives insights into living in the city, culture, and food”
Explore Lyon’s secret traboules with a witty local guide, tracing silk, politics, architecture, and Resistance history through Vieux Lyon.
“We enjoyed a fabulous tour of the traboules in Lyon with Yannick. He is clearly passionate about them and loves sharing his knowledge and enthusiasm with others. We learned so much! I would highly recommend this tour to family and friends.”
Explore Lyon’s Roman ruins, traboules, basilica, and top squares with Aidan or Ryan on a friendly bilingual walking tour.
“We learned a lot about Lyon that we would have never found out. Highly recommend this tour and Ryan, our guide, was excellent.”
Explore Lyon’s Old Town, Fourvière Hill, secret passageways, and Roman sights on a friendly three-hour small-group tour.
“Excellent tour, gentle walking pace. Lots of information & history delivered in an interesting easily understood way. Toni is a great guide and Maud clearly communicates so everything is easy. Highly recommend this tour.”
Explore Lyon’s silk district, traboules, Roman ruins, and old town on a lively two-hour English walking tour led by Paul.
“Paul was fantastic, a really interesting walk. We learned a lot about Lyon and visited places we would otherwise have not known existed.”
Taste Lyon through 14 local specialties, medieval streets, secret traboules, and five food stops on this four-hour Vieux Lyon tour.
“Impossible to improve on this exceptionally good tour because it blended historical context with the food experiences which elevated the food tastings to a higher level. Recommend doing this tour as a "must" and do it on your first day in Lyon because it provides such a great introduction to the Lyon story for a visitor.”
Explore Lyon by e-bike, taste local cheese and charcuterie, and walk Vieux Lyon with a small English-speaking group.
“Mannie was great! She spoke very well and was very knowledgeable. Keep track of everyone while keeping a good pace. I'd ride with her again”
Taste Lyon’s sausages, cheeses, praline pie, chocolates, and more while exploring traboules with a local guide.
“Brilliant! Axel was a superb guide, and there wasn’t a question she wasn’t able to answer. The food stops were excellent and we definitely got our money’s worth! Would definitely recommend.”
Review of Lyon’s private local walking tour, with custom routes, practical tips, guide quality, costs, logistics, and who should book.
“Our guide was Joseph, he is Lyon local. He was able to walk us around the city to explore sites from 300 ad clear up to 1800’s. He explained the change in architecture and building materials. He was fantastic. We even sampled the local bread.”
Review of Lyon’s private Old District walking tour, with traboules, Saint-Jean Cathedral, Hotel Gadagne, pricing, guides, and practical tips.
“Gil was a superb guide. Her English was excellent and she made sure we covered our particular areas of interest. I can highly recommend this tour--it's a great way to get your bearings and helps to put everything about this extraordinarily beautiful city into context.”
Review of Lyon’s 1-hour-45-minute walking tour with Quentin, covering Vieux Lyon, traboules, food, Resistance history, and Saint-Exupéry.
“Quentin was so much fun and hilarious. Very knowledgeable and detailed. Highly recommend to everyone.”
Explore Lyon on a two-hour English walking tour from Grand Hôtel-Dieu to Vieux Lyon, with traboules, history, river views, and local tips.
“Quentin is super guide and great story teller! Thnx Old city Lyon is beautiful, basilica, statues, court house…”
See Lyon by e-bike, taste local charcuterie and wine, then walk UNESCO-listed Vieux Lyon with a local guide.
“One of the best ways to experience & explore the city. Was so much fun. Guides were amazing”
Review of Lyon’s private UNESCO walking tour, with traboules, Fourvière Basilica, Guignol, local history, price, and practical tips.
“Our guide Didac was amazing. Extremely personable and knowledgeable and he tailored the tour to us as we went along. We had a really great time. He went above and beyond for us.”
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