Geneva Travel Guide

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Today the world's largest center for multilateral diplomacy and a hotbed of luxury shopping, Geneva was a postcard-perfect city known for enlightened tolerance long before Henry Dunant founded the International Red Cross here (1864), the League of Nations moved in (1919), the World Health Organization (WHO) set up shop after World War II, or the World Wide Web was invented here at CERN, the European Center for Nuclear Research. Once a place of refuge for the religious reformers Jean Calvin and John Knox, it has sheltered Voltaire, Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Lord Byron, and Mary Shelley, offered safe haven to Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt, and expelled its native son Jean-Jacques Rousseau for being liberal way before his time.

Hotels

Geneva Hotels

Despite a few new hotels at all levels—including some creative takes on essentially traditional concepts (thankfully, no pods yet)—the palace...read more

Restaurants

Geneva Restaurants

Relatively few restaurants focus on a see-and-be-seen angle for targeted age groups; what unites diners at the best ones, whether simple cafés or...read more

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Geneva Experiences

  • Top Reasons to Go to Geneva

    Falling water: The feathery Jet d'Eau, Geneva's iconic harbor fountain and the ultimate public shower, is visible for tens of miles in every direction... Read more

  • La Cité Sarde

    Geneva's Greenwich Village, Carouge (from quadruvium) began life in the Roman era as a crossroads next to a bridge over the river Arve. It remained... Read more

  • A Concierge's Top Tips

    Concierges can be the Great Finesser of your trip: finding hard-to-get reservations or tickets, helping with business matters, and generally... Read more

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