Sobre este lugar
Rising from a stone jetty at the mouth of the harbour where the Rhone leaves Lake Geneva, the Jet d'Eau is one of the tallest fountains in the world and the unmistakable symbol of the city. Two powerful pumps housed in a partially submerged station drive five hundred litres of water every second up to a height of one hundred and forty metres, leaving the nozzle at two hundred kilometres an hour. Its brilliant white colour comes from millions of air bubbles deliberately mixed into the water, and on any given moment roughly seven tonnes of water hang suspended above the lake. What began in 1886 as a purely functional pressure valve for the city's hydraulic power network has, over more than a century, become a beloved beacon that glows under floodlights on summer evenings and is visible from across the city and even from the air.
Datos clave
- 140 metres — The height the plume of water reaches above the surface of Lake Geneva
- 500 litres per second — The volume of water the pumps drive skyward at any given moment
- 200 km/h — The speed at which the water leaves the nozzle before falling back to the lake
📍 Jetée du Jet-d'eau, 1207, Genève