Geneva Tourism Guide

Geneva is a city of elegant, sophisticated, chic and snobbish in its main arteries consecrate themselves to a demanding and selective. When it comes to Geneva, it is worth mentioning the "Jet". It is known throughout the world. The great characters of the jet-setters have seen at least once. But the jet in Geneva, a true icon of the city, has not always been a tourist attraction!

In the second half of the nineteenth century, the city's population increased from 64,000 to 100,000. Since water is the main energy, the authorities decided to build a factory to hydraulic Coulouvrenière, in order to distribute the driving force of the Rhine to Geneva artisans working in their small shops.

When the evening, these artisans stop their cars, they produce uncontrollable pressures by drivers working hydraulics, which must rush to stop the pumps, it is impossible to predict at what time you will produce the super-pressures.


And that's when you had the idea to create an additional dispensing valve, through a closed security, which was meant to control the pressure, leaving the sky to raise the water overpressure.

We are in 1886, so was born the first jet of water. She launches into the sky about 30 meters, but it attracts the attention of the population that loves to stop and contemplate. For this reason, in July 1891, the Board of Directors of the city of Geneva, decided to promote it to a tourist attraction, raising it to 90 meters.

Until 1951, the water jet has been linked to a network of drinking water. But send a cubic meter of water, every two seconds in the sky is truly an enterprise! Had to be built in the bay, a pumping station independently, using the water of the lake and allowing the jet of water to operate all year round!

Today, its average height is about 140 m. The water is driven at a speed of 200 km per hour with an output of 500 liters per second. And lighted by twelve projectors, eight of which illuminate the base and four columns and the tip of the building. The water jet in Geneva is not the highest in the world, but symbolizes the vitality of a city known internationally as environmentally friendly and facing the future. A curiosity, the jet of water can not stand the wind, when blowing over 25 mph, the jet does not appear to cross the sky.

Geneva is a city "alternatives", All gathered around the old city, the bastions, the walls of the reformers, the Cathedral of Saint Pierre, and the statue of General Dufour. And 'symbolically divided by Lake Lehmann on the right bank and left bank. Connected by the bridge Mont Blanc, From which you have a splendid view of snow-covered mountain.

Geneva is the City banks and high finance; home of precision clocks, cradle of the most prestigious jewelry and cities where the chocolate becomes a work of art for demanding and refined palates.

And 'rich museums, Such as Famous'Contemporary Art. The museum of history of scienceLocated in the heart of the residence of the Park-Restaurant "The Pearl of the Lake", has a collection of old scientific instruments from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. The Patek Philippe-MUSEUM is the museum that displays 500 years of history of the clock, with masterpieces from the sixteenth century to the twentieth century. And then you can visit yet Museum of Far Eastern art, The Museum of ethnography shows that such fibers ancestral Indonesia, the International Museum of the Red Cross, Which shows for example the massacre of landmines or genocide committed by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia contemporary, the Swiss museum in the world As the Swiss Guards of the Pope, the Vatican by a whopping 500 years! There are still Museum of Natural History which is the expression of the insect world, and finally the Museum of Art and History consecrated ingenuity of man. Do not forget the magnificent botanical garden with Conservatory of Music.


Which of you did not hear at least once in his life to speak of Davidoff? Now Geneva is the home of Davidoff Cigar, A house founded in 1911. Zino Davidoff is the most famous connoisseur of cigars from around the world. He has dedicated his life to the tobacco and cigar. Its purpose was "to enrich life with pleasure." He was a man well known in the business world, believed in the essential values ​​and happiness resulting from them. "Do you smoke less, but better and longer" was his philosophy of life.

Geneva is the city, devoted to the shopping at high risk for credit card! The most prestigious international fashion companies, try and seduce the visitor with their spectacular window displays. Geneva is a city temptress, the pleasures and tastes delicious, overflow from local and international restaurants. The tourist as well as the public is led to the sin of gluttony. Swiss specialty is the Fondue and "raclette" cheese melt with vegetables! Or as the famous lake fish "Filettes de perches" sauce and lemon "Les shadows" or "The Feras".

Geneva at night strips of double-breasted, tie and white cuffs, held that it had taken to work in the bank and broke out in clubs, private clubs, cabarets, lounges, wine bars. A curiosity spicy for the tourist who suffer from loneliness, there are many escort agencies and if it were a woman in need of companionship is an agency that provides male companionship is to be accompanied at a dinner party, for other needs, but not limited to, other agencies also provide young girls and ladies over thirty-five years and available gay men more demanding!