Berges du Rhône
Riverside promenade of skate bowls, boules lanes and sand courts reclaimed from a former parking lot.
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The guide to the Berges du Rhône traces how a Lyon riverbank once buried under sixteen hundred bumper-to-bumper cars became a run of pétanque lanes, skate bowls and sand courts. You'll hear city engineers argue over where to put the traffic through the early 2000s, and how two underground garages and a 44-million-euro build between 2005 and 2007 cleared the quays. Listen for the locals still arguing boules calls the way Lyonnais always have.
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