Parc de la Tête d'Or
Sprawling landscaped park built over a drained swamp, centered on a sixteen-hectare artificial lake and free zoo.
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This guide to Parc de la Tete d'Or in Lyon opens with the centuries-old legend behind its name: a buried treasure said to include a solid gold head of Christ, hidden somewhere in the marsh that once covered this ground. It follows an 1855 search by a clairvoyant hired by the city, and then the real work of Prefect Claude-Marius Vaisse and landscapers Eugene and Denis Buhler, who dammed the Rhone and drained the swamp to create the park's sixteen-hectare lake. Stand at the water's edge and picture the marsh that lay here before any of it was tamed.
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