Sobre este lugar
Laid out beside the water in the 1850s to dress up what had been a rough timber harbour, the Jardin Anglais is Geneva's first park in the informal English landscape style, all curving paths, mature trees, and open lawns framing the shimmer of Lake Geneva. Strollers gather here around the bronze Monument National, where two allegorical figures representing the Republic of Geneva and Helvetia embrace to mark the city's 1815 entry into the Swiss Confederation, and around the ornate Four Seasons Fountain. But the park's true celebrity sits at its western edge: L'horloge fleurie, the Flower Clock, a working timepiece whose face is planted with thousands of blooms and changed with the seasons. Created in 1955 to honour Geneva's twin talents for watchmaking and horticulture, it has become one of the most photographed spots on the entire lakefront, a place where the city's precision and its love of beauty meet in a single, ever-changing image.
Datos clave
- 6500 plants — Flowering plants and shrubs make up the clock face, replanted through the seasons
- 2.5 metres — The length of the second hand, once the longest in the world
- 1955 year — The Flower Clock was created to honour Geneva's watchmaking and gardening heritage
📍 Promenade du Lac, 1204, Genève