Known as the “city of peace”, Geneva, as my short film shows, is also a city dominated by water. Switzerland’s second largest city is located at the south west end of Lake Geneva, where the Rhône flows out of the lake, the largest on the course of that great river, and one of the largest lakes in western Europe. Just west of the city centre a second river, the Arve, flows into the Rhône. The “Jet d’Eau” in the middle of the lake is one of the landmarks of Geneva and is among the tallest fountains in the world. Being built on so much water, the city requires a lot of bridges, and my film features some of them. The video was taken in summer – don’t miss the tourist street train and the birdsong heard above the noise of the traffic – when the lakeside is particularly beautiful and busy.

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