Let Secret Geneva guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar. Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Geneva guide book and let our local experts show you the well-hidden treasures of this amazing city. Ideal for local inhabitants and curious travellers alike. The places included in our guides are unusual and unfamiliar, allowing one to step off the beaten track. Now in it's third edition, Secret Geneva features 100 secret and unusual locations. Head off to discover hidden tunnels and a bomb shelter beneath the Old City, follow a secret passage open once a year, admire the cathedral's Orpheus capital, pray at Calvin's fake grave, look for the plaque that compares the pope with the Antichrist, visit the secret gardens of the Carouge district, discover why the national monument represents two Savoyard women, learn where Frankenstein was created, sleep in Professor Calculus' room, and more. Far from the usual crowds and cliches, Geneva still keeps treasures well hidden that it reveals only to the inhabitants and to the travellers who know how to wander off the beaten track. An essential guide for those who thought they knew Geneva well or for those who wish to discover the hidden side of the city. Don't miss - Each chapter of this Secret Geneva travel guide book corresponds to a different neighbourhood of the city so that one can always find a hidden or secret place to discover. Perfectly planned walks - Make sure that you do not miss any Secret location, by discovering each one featured in this guide by planning a walking tour of each neighbourhood.
The last pillar of the former domes Albert Gallatin: a Genevan American who helped the US buy Louisiana from Napoleon Camillo Cavour, the father of Italian unification, lived in Geneva The door of the Pictet House "One of the cruellest abuses of the luxury that devoured us for so long..." The last fire-pot in Geneva Mysterious numbers on the Perron steps The `secret' Monetier passage The twists and turns of rue des Barrieres The sculpted bomb behind Magdalene Church When Geneva was mistaken for Genoa The remains of Muret passage The strange destiny of the Lutheran Church The bust of Rudolph Toepffer T pffer: source of inspiration for Gustave Dore, Picasso The mysterious ladies of the Troinex stone Stele to the glory of the god Mithra When a banker bought `his' street Mithraism - a fascinating ancient religion for the initiated Christmas owes its date of 25 December to the winder solstice and Mithraism Franz Liszt and Marie d'Agoult's house of love Sinister Tabazan's shop sign Rue Chausse-Coq: a reminder of the brothels of yesteryear The statue of Gundobad at Bourg-de-Four The banners of the Clementine statue The cycle of centuries on Bourge-De-Four When number 1, Grand-rue was number 237 Place de la Taconnerie street sign The site of the tumultuous love affair between Eugene Sue and Lucien Bonaparte's granddaughter, 30 years his junior Who was Jean de Brogny? The bas-relief of the pig keeper Why is the chapel called the Chapel of the Maccabees? The enigma of `Apollo's head' Clement's mark beneath Saint Peter's The inscription agains the `Roman Antichrist' Symbols of the cathedral's capitals the Orpheus Capital in the Cathedral The much of Orpheus The misericords of Saint Peter's Cathedral Peculiar motifs under these canons' seats The sibyl of Saint Peter's Cathedral stalls Sibyls: prophets of Christ? The Romans, interpreters of the Sibylline Books The bowed head of the prophet Jeremiah Auguste de Niederhausen, one of Rodin's students The mysterious heads on the Tavel House The little-known travels of five Arsenal cannons The town's hall bench of justice Jacques Gruet: the author of the oldest Genevan document in patois The horseman's ramp at the town hall Inscription at promenade de la Trill Saint German: Geneva's oldest church paid the tax for the Crusades Urban fossils at the town hall The statue of Pictet de Rochemont The Treille's Bench Is the world's longest bench in Marseille, France? The Treille's official chestnut tree The `crazy chesnut' The Sautier of the Republic Where does the word Sautier come from? The angel of the monument to the Red Cross Centenary Henry Dunant: initiator, promoter, or founder of the Red Cross? Old Geneva's underground tunnels Niches in the facade of the Maison Internationale des etudiants Juliet Drouet naked What became of James Pradier The little secrets if the Reformation Wall Landowski: the sculptor of the Reformation Wall ... and the Christ of Rio de Janeiro The only woman David, Vainqueur de Goliath statue Sculptors who change their first name The curious location of the bust of Henry Dunant The guillotine in Geneva The naked statue of `Harmony' at Victoria Hall The grotesque figure of rue de la Corraterie Theodore de Beze on the Escalade fountain Why was the Escalade fountain placed so far from the site of the Savoyard attack that was miraculously repelled in 1602? The forgotten origin of the Rues-Basses lions A controversial bas-relief at Molard Where does the word `molard' come from? The plaque too the creator of Esperanto Secret gardens of Carouge Holy Cross Church did a U-turn An emblematic cinema saved by local willpower Bio for Biographe, Georges Kemeny's invention Cemetery of the Kings, Plainpalais The grave of Griselidis Real, Geneva's most famous prostitute Masonic top of Georges Favon The Masonic Blavignac Tower The Savoyard women of the national monument Fountain of the Jardin Agnlais Private boat trip on the `Neptune' The Pierre du Niton landmark When Gargantua skipped rocks The Peacock House and the House of Pan Pan: a god at the original of the word `panic' Plaque rejected for Celine's house The fauns of 33-35 avenue de Miremont Champel: rue Beau-Sejour was the former site of executions Frankestein, an occult novel written at Cologny The mysterious B of Bodmer Museum Vestiges of the Roman aqueduct serving Geneva The weasel on the statue of Philibert Berthelier Marks of Florentine power at Saint Gervais Temple The red lily, symbol of Florence Sacred symbolism of the fleur-de-lis Misericords of Saint Gervais Temple Saint Gervais Archaeological Site Plaque of the Genevan heroes The 14 Savoyards hung and beheaded after the Escalade The bas-relief of Rue Vallin Where does the word cabinotier come from? Au Vieux St-Gervais boutique The secret passages of Saint Gervais Rousseau's false birthplace The revenge of a shunned statue Room 122 of the Cornavin Hotel Les Paquis church The forgotten peregrinations of the former Russian Hotel's sphinxes Where does the name Cornavin come from? The bloodstained rose and ribbon of Sissi the empress The assassin's head preserved in Vienna The roving statue of the Duke of Brunswick Hidden symbolism of the Brunswick tomb The chateau of Dardagny and Le capitaine Fracasse: what is the true decor described by Theophile Gautier? The reason for the church of Prissy's isolated facade The last Genevan capotes The `petrified' in front of Palais Wilson Palais Wilson: an eventful existence Mon-Repos villa The forgotten peregrinations of the pacifist work The surprising history of the Japanese bell in Ariana gardens A UN fresco created by a centenarian painter The thirteen volume of La floor du Mexique The oldest walnut tree in Switzerland Chateau de Rouleau excavation site The legend of the White Lady The walls of the weaver's farmhouse House of the heroic Irene Gubier Three heroes among many others The last double-decker bench The mysterious pavilion of Pont-de-Sierne Israeli cemetery at Veyrier The exact site of Ferdinand Lasalle's duel Guerlain's secret garden Mysteries of orchids The catholic cross of Sezenove The Justice Stone What is the Justice stone? Boundary markers
