Lyon is forever on the go!
Lyon hosts a number of annual festivals and biennials on a wide range of topics: graphic novels, art or street food, electronic music and films, to name but a few... Just walk this way!
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The Fourvière Nights
Since 1946, The Fourvière Nights has brought together audiences on its terraced seating beneath the stars. In June and July 2026, the festival will...
Lyon Street Food Festival
France's biggest culinary festival is back, more ambitious than ever, for a 10th edition that promises to be unmissable.
Sport, Literature and Movie Festival
Cinéma Institut Lumière - Le Hangar
The Sport, Literature & Cinema festival gives pride of place to sport through the cinema with projections, meetings, exhibitions and a sports book...
Festival Têtes de Bois
Espace Tonkin
The Espace Tonkin starts the year with the puppets "Les Têtes de bois", intended for the young public and their families with a program of workshops...
Minimalist Chapel Festival
La Chapelle de la Trinité
Less is more, even for music! A festival on minialistic music, a genre born in the Us during the 1980s, created by several famous america,n composers.
Festival Écrans Mixtes
Lieux divers
From 5 to 13 March 2025, the Festival Écrans Mixtes will be combatting discrimination against LGBTQI people and women via the inclusive world of...
Quais du Polar
Lieux divers
From 4 to 6 April 2025, the Festival Quais du Polar returns for a new edition! A choice of novels, graphic novels, TV series, films, round-tables,...
Reperkusound
Lieux divers
The festival Reperkusound has become a standard-bearer of electronic, contemporary, urban and ground-breaking music.
Nuits Sonores
Les Grandes locos
In 2026, the cream of the crop of international, national and Lyon's electronic music scene will be present from 13 to 17 May at Les Grandes Locos...
Chapelle Sauvage Festival 2026
La Chapelle de la Trinité
A festival on the links between music and nature. Three days of naturalistic concerts and performanceson the theme of water.
Lyon Street Food Festival
Les Grandes Locos
France's biggest culinary festival is back, more ambitious than ever, for a 10th edition that promises to be unmissable.
Lyon BD Festival
Lieux divers
In just a few years, Lyon comic book festival has become one of France’s stand-out “ninth art” events.
Bienvenue en Beaujonomie event
Domaines du Beaujolais
Come and join us at the Beaujolais winegrowing estates, with your family, friends or as a couple, for a chic, laid-back gourmet bistro-style meal,...
Entre Rhône et Saône Festival
Lieux divers
On 27, 28 and 29 June 2025, some 300 events reveal the rivers from a historical, cultural, scientific, sports or ecological point of view. They’re...
Festival du Printemps de Pérouges
Château de St-Maurice-de-Rémens
Printemps de Pérouges is the largest open-air music festival in the Ain region. A convivial musical experience in the heart of the Plaine de l'Ain,...
Intérieur Queer Festival
Lieux divers
This event offers both fun and food for thought, with its panorama of queer French and European cultures in the very heart of Greater Lyon.
The Fourvière Nights
Lugdunum Roman Theatres of Lyon
Since 1946, The Fourvière Nights has brought together audiences on its terraced seating beneath the stars. In June and July 2026, the festival will...
The European Heritage Days
Lieux divers
Every year you are invited to visit public buildings, museums, chateaux or private homes free of charge.
The Lumière Festival - Grand Lyon Film Festival
Lieux divers
The birth city of Cinematography hosts the Lumière Festival and invites filmmakers, actors, critics, historians and writers to come and celebrate its...
Festival of Lights
Lieux divers
When Lyon is dressed in lights, everybody comes down into the streets to take in the sights. The facades of the city’s most beautiful buildings...
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