PHOTO OF THE DAY June 25, 2005  

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Where Lyon, France
When 1989
Photographer James L. Stanfield

With the towers of the Basilica of Notre-Dame-de-Fourvière in the far distance the city of Lyon sprawls around the Saône River.

(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "A Castle Under the Louvre," July 1989, National Geographic magazine)


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