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Shopping in Geneva

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Geneva Shopping

Many of Geneva's stores and galleries are devoted to those with deep pockets. The epicenter of luxury shopping is the Rue du Rhône,which alternates Gucci and Valentino with diamond-studded watches and jewels. One block in, at the foot of the Old Town, is the less expensive, trendier street known variously as: rue de la Confédération, rue du Marché, rue de la Croix-d'Or, and rue de Rive. Galleries, antiques shops, bookstores, and boutiques line the Grand-Rue and the streets radiating from place du Bourg-de-Four. Rue du Mont-Blanc, on the Right Bank, is choked with souvenir stores.

As a jewelry capital rivaled only by New York and an international center for Swiss watchmakers, Geneva regularly hosts high-profile auctions by the major houses.

General opening hours for stores are weekdays from 9 to 6:30 and Saturday from 9 to 5. Shops in the downtown area close at 8 on Thursday.

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