The area we are in is called citi internationale. It is centered around a convention center. It is 79 acres.
As you start on the street toward our hotel there is Interpol, the international police organization that is a central location for training, technical assistance and super secret spy stuff. Then corporate offices. There's an apartment. A bank.
The area here is a series of connected buildings. There are 4 hotels as part of it. One is a Marriott with a casino in the basement. Right next to the Marriott is a strip club. It's done in a way that it doesn't stand out. There is a movie theater.
Then there there is the convention center.
Part of the whole area is a museum of contemporary art. What's interesting about it is the front of it. This whole area used to be a set of buildings that were built in the 1930s for the trade fair. They moved the trade fair in the 80's and started building all this. The front of the art museum uses one of the old facades of the trade fair.
There are many restaurants here, mostly pricey. Lots of outdoor seating. The latest addition is an amphitheater which seats 3200. In front of the amphitheater is a giant sculpture of an orange man on a mobile phone. It is part of 6 sculptures in the citi internationale called The Inhabitants.
Quite an interesting place. All this is across from a beautiful big park and beyond that is the river Rhône.
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September 25, 2022 at 07:20PM
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