Lyon: Witchcraft and Occultism Guided Walking Tour｜France

Dive into Lyon’s mysterious side on an unconventional witchcraft and occultism walking tour. Discover the city’s well-guarded secrets as your guide leads you off the beaten path into Lyon’s hidden corners.

Head to the meeting point to meet your guide, who will play the role of Jules Esquirol, a French novelist, in historical costume. Get ready to join him on an exploration of occult Lyon during the Belle Époque.

Then, follow Esquirol through the narrow lanes and unsuspecting squares of Lyon’s emblematic 4th arrondissement in Croix-Rousse to the Saint-Nizier Church.

Throughout the tour, listen to fascinating, authentic, and spine-chilling tales. Uncover a Lyon of shadows inhabited by eccentric or enlightened characters.

Hear about Masonic lodges shaken by the "magnetic" practices of the mage Cagliostro, frightening apparitions during the Renaissance in the convent of the Dames de Saint-Pierre, an emerging heresy in Lyon that later spread throughout Europe, and more.