Lyon (AFP)
The International City of Gastronomy, devoted to the "good eating" Lyonnais and French tableware, will open Saturday in the setting of the Grand Hotel-Dieu.
Located in the city center of Lyon, this city will be the first to open its doors among the four (Lyon, Dijon, Tours, Paris-Rungis) planned in France in the wake of the ranking in 2010 by the Unesco gastronomic meal of the French to its intangible cultural heritage.
Located on four newly renovated levels for a total area of 4,000 m2 in the oldest buildings of the Grand Hotel-Dieu, which date from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, this city offers a permanent route and temporary exhibitions, often sensory and participatory.
"It will be a cultural and educational place above all," announces its director Florent Bonnetain, evoking a space dedicated "as much to the starry cuisine as to the culinary challenges of everyday life".
The permanent course, open to the connoisseur as well as to the layman, presents different ways of conceiving gastronomy in the world, but also a dive at the table of the great emblematic chefs of Lyon and exhibitions of rare objects, like the legendary piano of a ton, of the late Paul Bocuse.
A "gastronomic space" will also welcome top chefs in "residence" who, on specific themes (countries, products), will be able to share their talent and let visitors taste their dishes. Sponsor of the project, the three-star chef Regis Marcon will be the first guest.
Worn by the city and the metropolis, with 2 million euros each, and by sponsorship up to 10.5 million, the city backed by the new Halles de Lyon will remain open 362 days a year, for an expected affluence of 300,000 visitors .
The entry will be 12 euros per adult but it will pay double to participate in tastings proposed by the chefs.
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