Fresque des Lyonnais

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](https://citecreation.fr/en/realisation/the-lyonnais-fresco-trompe-loeil-wall-mural-lyon/?utm_source=openai))

49 quai Saint-Vincent / 2 rue de la Martinière, 69001 Lyon, France