Visit Old Town Geneva, Switzerland
To experience centuries of Geneva’s history, visit the old town where the Grand rue is one of the most preserved streets. Ancient walls have been ergonomically blended into the current architecture and lifestyle to preserve the archaeological site that they expect to the 1600’s in a practical way. 26 points of interest occupy the old town as well as a plethora of art galleries, bistros, book shops, and excellent, museum stores that look more like museums with objects from centuries ago. It’s fascinating that these legal and dignified stone-walled buildings house shops and restaurants.
One of kind dining rooms and coffee shops both indoors and out join monuments of local heroes and the longest park bench to embellish ultra vogue meeting area. The pulsive which is the central square called the Place de Borda For. It’s impossible to resist the coffee break in the public square not to even mention a delectable handmade chocolate in Del Jean Sur Tube.
Much o Geneva’s history unfolds here in the old town dominated by Cathedral St. Pierre. The underground world that extends beneath the Cathedral is both an architectural feet as well as being an amazing archaeological site.
Built between 1160 and 1232, it started Romanesque and has Gothic and Greco-Roman influence. Geneva was known as the Rome of the Protestants and the magnificent wall of the reformers memorializes John Calvin and the pioneers of the reformation movement of the 1500’s. One-hundred meters of wall commemorate Protestantism – a movement that had a tremendous impact on Geneva.
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