Eaux-Vives Park
Quai Gustave-Ador, Geneva 1211 - Switzerland
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The castle dominating the centre of Eaux-Vives Park was built around the year 1750 and is now a restaurant of high repute. The site of the Parc des Eaux-Vives plays a very important role in the history of Geneva. This huge estate changed hands several times, one of its noted owners being Louis Favre who constructed the Gothard railway tunnel, before being bought by the Eaux-Vives municipality in 1912. The park is full of shrubbery of all kinds: alpine and perennial plants, bulbous flowers and azaleas. The rhododendrons, given by the Netherlands in gratitude to Geneva for humanitarian aid during the last world war, are outstanding.
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