text: **Administration**
  
  **Commune**
  
  Like Paris and Marseille, the commune (municipality) of Lyon is divided into a number of municipal arrondissements, each 
  of which is identified by a number and has its own council and town hall. Five arrondissements were originally created in 
  1852, when three neighbouring communes (La Croix-Rousse, La Guillotière, and Vaise) were annexed by Lyon. Between 
  1867 and 1959, the third arrondissement (which originally covered the whole of the Left Bank of the Rhône) was split three 
  times, creating a new arrondissement in each case. Then, in 1963, the commune of Saint-Rambert-l'Île-Barbe was annexed to 
  Lyon's fifth arrondissement. A year later, in 1964, the fifth was split to create Lyon's 9th – and, to date, final – 
  arrondissement. Within each arrondissement, the recognisable*quartiers*or neighbourhoods are: 
  
  1st arrondissement: Slopes of La Croix-Rousse, Terreaux, Martinière/St-Vincent 