Top 10 Things To See:

It’s a funny old place, but get under its skin and you’ll discover an interesting array of things to do in Geneva, from the international to the strictly local.

1. Jet d'Eau
2. St. Pierre Cathedral
3. Reformation Wall
4. Palace of Nations
5. Victoria Hall
6. Natural History Mudeum of Geneva
7. Musee Rath
8. Hekhal Haness Synagogue
9. Musee Ariana
10. Barbier-Mueller Museum

History of Geneva

It’s a funny old place, but get under its skin and you’ll discover an interesting array of things to do in Geneva, from the international to the strictly local. In part, Geneva suffers from its own success as a world-class, wealthy business centre. During the day it’s a bustling city filled with businesspeople, international young professionals flown in for a day’s meeting and frontaliers who work in Geneva but live over the border in France. Consequently, come evenings and weekends it can seem a little quiet for such a cosmopolitan city.

Every 12 December, Geneva organizes the Escalade Festival. This is the traditional commemoration of the defeat of the Savoyard troops, who attacked Geneva on 12 December 1602. Children sing the song "Ce qu'e laino", whose words, in old Genevan dialect, tell of the events of 1602.