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This vast trompe-l'oeil mural on the Saône celebrates Lyon through portraits rather than street life. Created by CitéCréation and installed in the mid-1990s, it gathers around 30 men and women linked to the city's history—scientists, writers, clergy, inventors, chefs, and cultural figures—arranged in painted windows, balconies and shopfronts. The local flavor is unmistakable: it feels like a civic pantheon disguised as an inhabited riverside building, merging tourism, urban memory and mural illusionism in one facade. (citecreation.fr)