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Geneva Gardens and Open Air

Geneva Gardens and Open Air

Geneva · Switzerland

14 stops13 km2 h 34 min
  • Audio guide
  • 4 languages
  • Offline

Walk through Geneva by way of parks, gardens, squares, and waterfront green spaces. You will move from the Jardin Anglais and its floral clock through central parks before reaching the Rhône confluence and a long sequence of lakeside parks. Each stop offers a different way to experience the city outdoors, from carefully arranged planting to broad lawns and quiet places to pause. This is a rewarding route for seeing Geneva through its public green spaces rather than its buildings alone.

The walk

Stops 1–6 of 14. The rest are in the app.

  1. English Garden

    English Garden

    A park built by filling in Geneva’s lakefront port, then dressed as an English garden.

  2. Flower Clock

    Flower Clock

    A living clock whose flower dial was designed in nineteen fifty-five and modernised in two thousand two.

  3. Agrippa d'Aubigné Terrace

    Agrippa d'Aubigné Terrace

    Terrasse Agrippa-d'Aubigné is a square in Geneva.

  4. 8 more stops on this walk, in the app
  5. Treille Promenade

    Treille Promenade

    A former defensive platform with Geneva’s famous one-hundred-and-twenty-metre bench

  6. Bastions Park

    Bastions Park

    A plague-era promenade that became Geneva’s university park, botanical garden, and Reformation memorial ground.

  7. Pointe de la Jonction

    Pointe de la Jonction

    Pointe de la Jonction is a park and tourism attraction in Geneva, Switzerland.

  8. Stop 7

  9. Stop 8

  10. Stop 9

  11. 8 more stops in the app

Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places

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How a walk works

8 more stops in the app

This page shows the first 6 of 14 stops. The rest of the walk, and the guide who narrates it, are in the app.

  1. Pick a walk

    Every stop is a real place, already in walking order.

  2. Pocket your phone

    Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.

  3. Listen as you arrive

    On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.

See the whole walk in the app

Free to install · Every city’s featured walk is free, start to finish.

  • A guide who talks

    Narration at every stop, starting on its own as you arrive — phone in your pocket.

  • The route, followed

    A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.

  • In four languages

    English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.

  • Or build your own

    Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.

  • The unglamorous things

    Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.

  • No signal needed

    Download a walk before you go and it works under a souk roof or on a plane.

  • Picks up where you left off

    Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.