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8 Best Things to do and see in Geneva in 1 day
1. Old Town
2. Lake Geneva
3. Jet D’eau
4. Palais Des Nations
5. The Broken Chair
6. Park des Bastions
7. St. Pierre Cathedral
8. Art and History Museum
Detailed itinerary for the things to do in 1 day in Geneva (Our Story)
In Europe, the best place to start exploring the city is from the central stations. Hence, we started exploring Geneva from there central station and headed to Jet D’eau, which is 10 min ride from there. Its one of the famous landmarks, but with the relentless rains, it wasn’t such a great experience for us. But its definitely worth a visit along with a stroll around Lake Geneva.
From there we headed Palais des Nations, which is the headquarters of League of Nations and home of UN office, while you can book pre book your tickets to go inside and discover behind the scene perspective of UN activities. Just outside of this is another landmark of Geneva, the Broken Chair which also attracts number of tourists. This is a 12meter tall sculpture echoes the message to remember the victims of land mines and urge your government to promote a ban on the same.
After spending our evening seeing these places we headed back to the central station, relaxed there for a while with a cup of coffee and then headed back to our Bnb. Cooked our ready to eat dinner and retired for the day. Due to relentless rains and constraint of time, we could not see other major places of interest but as there were many things around to see, we decided to start our next day quite early to cover as much as possible of them and then to proceed on to 2nd leg of our trip to Interlaken.
Next morning, after having the breakfast we headed to the Old town which was 15 min walk from our Bnb and along the route we had Park des Bastions (a must visit beautiful park which is famous for Reformation Wall, big chess board at the entrance and lot of green lawns with big trees), Place de Neuve, Art and History Museum and St. Pierre Cathedral. Old town was typical of any European city, with clobber stone roads, lot of hustle & bustle and good amount of history to be witnessed. After soaking in the old town, we headed back to our Bnb using the bus, checked out and headed towards the central station to catch our train to the main destination of Switzerland, Interlaken.
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