This pleasure garden over 17ha also has much to divulge about vegetal life. It includes a rock garden in which the plants are distributed into geographical groups, greenhouses and a winter garden containing tropical and equatorial vegetation, a deer ..

This picturesque old street, one of the best preserved in Old Geneva, offers a wide choice of antiques shops, libraries and art galleries. At No. 40 you can see the birthplace of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and at No. 27 that of the actor Michel Simon.

The Hôtel de Sellon, which is located in a street lined with a series of aristocratic 18C residences, brings together in the apartments of Countess Zoubov, filled with stamped furniture, valuable rugs and tapestries, precious objects collected during..

The Modern and Contemporary Art Museum reaveals, through its collections and temporary exhibitions, the work of artists since 1960, not necessarily the best known. The very competent personnel and the information slips placed in each room will guide ..

This cathedral laid out in the form of a Greek cross and crowned with gilded onion domes would be quite at home in Moscow. The walls, vaults and interior pillars are decorated with paintings inspired by Byzantine art, and the iconostasis forms a seri..

A beautifully restored former industrial building dating from the 19C is the setting for this horology museum that retraces 500 years of timepiece-making history through its impressive collections of clocks, watches and enamelling. Here you will find..

The attractive Villa Bartholoni (1825), nestling in the heart of the Lake Pearl Park, houses a museum of old scientific instruments. Astronomy, marine science, medicine, physics, meteorology: no field is omitted. One room is devoted to the Genevan ph..

Centred around the huge Place des Nations, bordered by Ariana Park and modern buildings, this district is the banking area of Geneva with international institutions such as the UN, and OMPI (World Intellectual Property Organisation), whose blue glass..

The old stable of Penthes chateau is home to a museum which retraces the history of the Genevan troops from the entry of the town into the Confederation (1815) to our own time, through various documents, equipment, weapons and uniforms.