Lake Geneva is a unique place to relax, which is beautiful in summer and winter. This is the largest lake in the Alps, which can receive and entertain thousands of people annually.
The lake is located between the Swiss and French territory, and the Swiss North Party is also considered to be a Swiss Riviera, because the most famous and popular personalities from all over the world come here.
The lake is distinguished by its calm, clean and cool waters that look like mirrors. They reflect almost all located on the shore, from small bustle to large and noisy trees and flowers.
Geneva shores are distinguished by the most beautiful combination of snow-covered lake coast with amazing subtropical vegetation, as well as a rather mild climate.
The flower beauty of the lake and its shores is simply indescribable.
Tourists come here not so because of the massive ski entertainment and all sorts of water active sports and recreation, namely because of the aesthetic enjoyment of natural beauty.
On the shores, tulips, poppies, anemone, daffodils grow on the shores. For several decades in the city on the shores of the Lake Geneva, the wakes are arranged by the tulip festival. But here are not only presented, but the other types of bulbous, and the area of plantings is more than thirty thousand square meters. It is just an amazing, unique sight that will not compare with any festival.
The beauty and advantage of rest at the Lake Geneva are not only local beauties. On the shores of the lake there are such beautiful cities in Switzerland, like Lausanne, Montreux, Vevey, Geneva and Villenev, and it is only from the Swiss side of the lake. With the French, it is the cities of Evian and Tonon-le-Ban.
For a fairly short time you can visit many tourism facilities of all these cities, and enjoy the beauty and hospitality of each.
Geneva is the largest city among those listed, and the second city in the country. It was Geneva who gave the name to the lake.
The main attraction and pride of Geneva is a city fountain, which has been about 120 years old. The fountain works daily, without stopping, the singular view of it opens from the Mont Blanc Bridge.
Famous all over the world are and beautiful Geneva floral clocks that are made of alive, colorful colors.
Here is the magnificent Cathedral of St. Peter, belonging to the XIII century, as well as the new area on which the theater and the Conservatory is located.
In Lausanne, located 50 kilometers from Geneva, tourists will be able to visit Bal Air Metropol - a trading house. Hermitage parks, Elyseysky, Mon-repo and Olympic, which are famous for their well-kept plants and gorgeous flowers.
Tourists believe that the shores of Lausanne are most beautiful from the Lake Geneva. And many celebrate a beautiful view of the water of the Lake Geneva. If you wish to spend an excellent, more secluded rest, then you should come in Lausanne.
An excellent city, especially for connoisseurs of natural beauty, is Montreux.
Montreux is another central resort place of the Lake Geneva, which is necessary to visit.
A truly amazing microclimate, created in the region, provided a sufficiently rich development of vegetation in the city, which creates unique recreation conditions. After all, on the one hand, there are surprisingly beautiful plants and flowers, combined with a water smoothing of the Lake Geneva, and on the other hand, a beautiful mountainous area, which is also ready to offer many places to visit.
Montreux is an amazing Schilon Castle, which is an old architectural monument of the country.
In Vevey, beautiful peasant fairs are held, on which it is necessary to visit. Here lived and worked the brilliant actor Charlie Chaplin, a monument to which is installed in the city square.
It also offers to visit places such as the Watch Museum, Museum of Photography, Museum of Food. The most interesting for children will be the museum of games.
In addition to the beautiful cities on the shores of Lake Geneva, there is a sufficiently large number of attractions, cultural and historical.
Tourists can visit about eighty museums of a wide variety of topics, a huge number of historical monuments of the Roman and medieval era.
On the shores of the lake there is also a large number of fortification facilities. For example, Gransson Castle, located a bit north of the city of Lausanne. Previously, it was a historically important object, and today it is a wonderful, cognitive museum, which conveys the atmosphere of a former prison located in the castle. There is also a car museum, among the exhibits there are rare models of cars that previously belonged to Winston Churchill.
On the eastern shore of the Lake Geneva, there is another, no less popular, Schilon castle.
He gained his popularity after the famous poem of Bairon, a prisoner of Schilone.
Moreover, the foundation of the castle was simply carved into the rock, so that the dungeons appeared in the castle, in which criminals and enemies were sazing.
It is very interesting that the upper part of the castle was performed, which was created from a variety of facilities of different heights, which are combined with three fortress yards. Internally, the castle fully reflects the Romanesque style, with some elements of early gothic.
Especially perfectly the castle looks against the background of the water stroit and the shores of the Lake Geneva. The water of the lake emphasizes his style and beauty, supporting the striking creative gusts of people who came here for ideas, for inspiration.