À propos de ce lieu
The Jetée des Eaux-Vives was never built for pleasure. When Geneva pushed it out from the eastern shore in 1857, alongside a matching jetty at the Pâquis, its job was to shelter the busy harbour and guide vessels safely home. Yet this long stone finger of a pier has become one of the city's most loved walks, a place where the streets simply stop and only lake, sky and mountains remain. At its very tip stands a modest octagonal lighthouse, rebuilt in reinforced concrete in 1911 and crowned with a copper dome now weathered to soft green, forever paired with its twin beacon across the bay. And rising right beside it is the reason most visitors come out here at all: Geneva's colossal Jet d'Eau, whose drifting spray cools the strollers who make the pilgrimage to the pier's end.
À retenir
- 1857 year — Geneva built the Eaux-Vives jetty and its twin at the Pâquis to shelter the harbour and guide boats home
- 4.7 metres — The height of the little white lighthouse at the pier's tip, rebuilt in reinforced concrete in 1911
- 140 metres — The height the Jet d'Eau throws its plume of lake water right beside the jetty
📍 Quai Gustave-Ador, 1207, Genève