Mural : Lyon in the Land of the Rising Sun – Yokohama (Japan) – CitéCréation celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2018

CitéCréation celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2018. The cooperative enterprise has designed and created more than 750 murals in the hearts of cities, in businesses or in social housing districts.

We open the photo album to present you each week a mural, a monumental wall design or a fresco for social housing.

 Lyon in the Land of the Rising Sun – Yokohama…

The Japanese company Toyota has chosen the theme “architecture and culture” of the city of Lyon to characterise its new Tressa shopping centre in Yokohama.

It selected and trusted CitéCréation to represent as faithfully as possible, in the central aisles of its large surface area, the Old Lyon in trompe-l’oeil, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since December 5, 1998.

This historical site of Lyon, territory delimited by the old fortifications of the city including the hill of Fourvière as well as a large part of the Presqu’Ile, is now a visit appreciated by the tourists of the whole world.

“It is difficult to find in the world a wall or a façade of a megalopolis city that has escaped the brushes of the muralist painters of CitéCréation. Isn’t exporting life-size talent the recipe to ensure a city’s influence?”

Denis Trouxe
President of the Greater Lyon Tourism and Convention Bureau
Assistant for Culture and Heritage of the City of Lyon, from 1995 to 2001