Jet d'Eau
The Jet d'Eau is a large fountain in Geneva, Switzerland, and is one of the city's most famous landmarks, being featured on the city's official tourism web site and on the official logo for Geneva's hosting of the 2008 UEFA Championships. Situated at t...
L'horloge fleurie
L'horloge fleurie, or the flower clock, is an outdoor flower clock located on he western side of Jardin Anglais park in Geneva, Switzerland.
Around 6,500 flowering plants and shrubs are used for the clock face. The plants are changed as the seasons ...
The Old City of Geneva
The Old City of Geneva
Geneva Airport
Geneva Airport (IATA: GVA, ICAO: LSGG), formerly and still unofficially known as Cointrin Airport, is the international airport of Geneva, the second most populous city in Switzerland. It is located 4 km (2.5 mi) northwest of the city centre. It reache...
St. Pierre Cathedral
The St. Pierre Cathedral is a cathedral in Geneva, Switzerland, today belonging to the Reformed Protestant Church of Geneva. It is known as the adopted home church of John Calvin, one of the leaders of the Protestant Reformation. Inside the church is a...
Palace of Nations
The Palace of Nations is the home of the United Nations Office at Geneva, located in Geneva, Switzerland. It was built between 1929 and 1938 to serve as the headquarters of the League of Nations. It has served as the home of the United Nations Office a...
Reformation Wall
The International Monument to the Reformation, usually known as the Reformation Wall, is a monument in Geneva, Switzerland. It honours many of the main individuals, events, and documents of the Protestant Reformation by depicting them in statues and ba...
Banc de la Treille
Banc de la Treille
Île Rousseau
The Île Rousseau is an island and park in Geneva, situated in the middle of the Rhone. It was named after the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. On the island is a statue of Rousseau.
The island is connected to the shore by a bridge.
Square du Mont Blanc
Square du Mont Blanc
Rhône
The name Rhône continues the name Rhodanus in Greco-Roman geography. The Gaulish name of the river was *Rodonos or *Rotonos.
The Greco-Roman as well as the reconstructed Gaulish name is masculine, as is French le Rhône. This form survives in the Spa...
Russian Church
The Russian Church, Geneva, the Cathédrale de l'Exaltation de la Sainte Croix, is a historic Russian orthodox church in Geneva, Switzerland.
Grand Duchess Anna Fyodorovna, who resided in Bern and Geneva after she chose to separate from Grand Duke Co...
Armenian Church Troinex
Armenian Church Troinex
Jardin Anglais
The Jardin anglais (literally "English garden") is an urban park in Geneva, Switzerland, situated at the location of an ancient harbor and a wood.
The park was created in 1855. In 1863 the building process of the Pont du Mont-Blanc changed the park ...
Rue du Mont-Blanc
Rue du Mont-Blanc
International Committee of the Red Cross
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is a humanitarian institution based in Geneva, Switzerland, and a three-time Nobel Prize Laureate. State parties (signatories) to the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols of ...
Lausanne Airport
The city established a runway in 1910. Henri Speckner was the first pilot to land here. A year later it created one of the first civil airports in Switzerland around the runway. A hangar for maintenance of aircraft was built west of the runway in 1914,...
Conservatory and Botanical Garden of the City of Geneva
It was founded in 1817 in a former area of Bastions Park in 1817 by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle. The Botanical Gardens were transferred to the Console site (192 rue de Lausanne) in 1904, constructed by the Genevan architect Henri Juvet in 1902-1904 sp...
Hôtel de ville de Genève
L’hôtel de ville est le siège des autorités politiques de la République et Canton de Genève. L’origine de ce bâtiment, d’abord modeste, remonte au xve siècle. Il a été développé par étapes entre le xvie siècle et le xviiie siècle, puis encore transform...
Jardin Anglais
The Jardin anglais (literally "English garden") is an urban park in Geneva, Switzerland, situated at the location of an ancient harbor and a wood.
The park was created in 1855. In 1863 the building process of the Pont du Mont-Blanc changed the park ...
