06/02/2015
A prestigious global financial and business center, Geneva also hosts numerous international organizations such as the United Nations, various UN entities, as well as the Red Cross is headquarters. Geneva boasts being home to the highest number of international organizations in the world, as well as having played an important historical role in world events such as the League of Nations and the Geneva conventions concerning the treatment of wartime non-combatants and prisoners of war.
Geneva is also home to Universite de Geneve one of the important faculties in Switzerland, as well as home to a number of important cultural organizations notably the UN museum, The Red Cross Museum, , the Modern Art Museum, Fondation Bauer, and the Patek Philippe Museum amongst others. For music and theatre lovers there is the Opera de Geneve and the Grande theatre de Geneve, and the CERN remains a unique global facility for those interested in the sciences.
Must see tourist attractions of Geneva include: the Jet d’eau, the Old Town and its Treasure, the Reformation Wall, the Palais des Nations, the CERN, the Carouge district.
For the lovers of sports and the outdoors, Geneva offers unrivalled access to activities and resorts ranging from the watersports of Lac Leman in town, to the altitude of The Mont Blanc a short drive away. A full complement of water sports, as well as other sports such as hiking, biking, skiing, snowshoeing, and paragliding are available to those interested.