Discover the heart of Lyon like you have never seen it. From Bellecour’s square to the Terreaux’s, passing by the Célestins theatre and the Fresque des Lyonnais, every emblematic place in Lyon’s Presqu’île will be unveiled in this first part of our mini world dedicated to Lyon. Animated scenes are full of details and humour. A special lights cycle recreates the day and night on worlds from sunrise to sunset. Vehicles circulate in mountain, countryside, town and village settings, 3,000 m2 of enchantment and humor for everyone.

Admission Fee:
Web Adult Ticket (Web deal -1€) : 13eur
Child ticket 4-17 years (Web deal -1€): 8eur

Opening hours:
DURING SCHOOL HOLIDAYS:
Open 7/7 days; Monday to Sunday: 10 am-7pm

OFF SCHOOL HOLIDAYS:
Wednesday to Friday: 11 am-6pm
Saturday, Sunday and public holidays: 10 am-7pm
Closed Monday and Tuesday
Closed on 25/12, 01/01 and 01/05

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Tobu World Square is a theme park with 1/25th scale miniature reproductions of the historic relics and buildings around the world. It took 5 years for preparation and costed 14 billion yen. The park consists of 6 zones: Japan, modern Japan, Asia, America, Egypt and Europe. 102 buildings, architecture in 21 countries, are finely reproduced. Landmarks include Tokyo Station, Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Tokyo Dome, as well as the Eiffel Tower, Sphinx and Leaning Tower of Pisa. Around every monument there are little people both for scale and amusement, usually engaging in some fun or funny activities.

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China is planning their future with all these little models. This project is amazingly huge. The main feature of the museum is the enormous scale model of Beijing. The model was created with incredible detail. A balcony provides a bird’s-eye view of Beijing equivalent to viewing the city at 20,000 feet. The museum also has a 3D cinema showing films about urban planning in Beijing.

Address: 20 Qianmen Dongdajie, Dongcheng District
Tel: +86 10 6702 4505/59
Open: 9 a.m.–5 p.m. (Closed Mondays)
Admission: RMB10 (1.6USD)
How to get there: Subway Line 2, Qianmen Station

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The latest era in history of NHL is known as the “Modern Era”, which is from 1992 to the present. During this time, the 1990s to the 2000s, the NHL expanded to 30 teams. New teams were added in cities such as San Jose, Nashville, Phoenix, Tampa Bay, Ottawa, Florida, Anaheim, Atlanta, Columbus, Minnesota, Carolina, and Colorado. There was a first milestone in the history of NHL in 1993, when the NHL got their first commissioner in Gary Bettman. The league became more of a business in the 1990s with sponsorships, more advertisements, and lucrative TV contracts. Also with the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s, more European players joined the NHL and took the league by storm and improved the competition dramatically. In the 1990s, players like Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, Steve Yzerman, Mark Messier, along with a combination of younger generation of players from North America and Europe such as Jaromir Jagr, Eric Lindros, Martin Brodeur, Peter Forsberg, Markus Naslund, Sergei Fedorov and Dominik Hasek help the league grow to the point where players were now making multi-million dollar salaries.

Steve Yzerman

Wayne Gretzky

Vincent Lecavalier

Markus Naslund

Jarome Iginla

Daniel Alfredsson

Brendan Shanahan

Brett Hull

Curtis Joseph

Chris Chelios

Niklas Lidstrom