https://timey.org/tags/lyon/ Recent content in Lyon on Timey.org Hugo en-us Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://timey.org/lyons-grand-h%C3%B4tel-dieu-eight-centuries-as-a-hospital-now-a-hotel-and-food-hall/ Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://timey.org/lyons-grand-h%C3%B4tel-dieu-eight-centuries-as-a-hospital-now-a-hotel-and-food-hall/ The chapel front is the part most people photograph without knowing what they are looking at. It sits at a corner off Rue Bellecordière, wedged between café awnings and a modern glass shopfront, and the inscription cut into the stone above the door reads LE GRAND HOSTEL DIEV. Old spelling, U carved as V in the Roman manner. Above the door there is a Pietà in relief, which is the dedication itself: Notre-Dame de Pitié.