Walking Downstream
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legende practical information 0 120 240 360 480 600 720 m technology and nature Scale 1:12 000 • "Plan piétons" Internet site www.ville-ge.ch/plan-pietons This newest course is a mix of technology and nature. Dams, Games bridges, pumping stations, baths, factories, tanks… water and • Commune of Vernier Internet site www.vernier.ch more water at man’s service. Commune Telephone de Vernier • Municipal information point 1, pont de la Machine, Tel. 311 99 70 We will go from the Pearl of the Lake to the Chèvres Walking Restroom • Mouettes Genevoises passenger ferry (reservation) Tel. 732 29 44 footbridge, strolling the length of the quay and following the anne Beverages banks of the Rhone for 15 miles along this “impetuous river” • Lake Geneva General Shipping Company (CGN) infoline: 0848 811 848 Mouettes Downstream (Celtic meaning of Rhone), which winds through the Genevoises Public Transportation (TPG) Jardin Botanique rte de Laus Baths of Pâquis around 1932 (SU) communes of Geneva and Vernier. For the return, why not • Public transportation (TPG) Tel. 308 34 34 7 Train station board one of the boats along the Rhone and take in its gentle • Taxi Tel. 33 141 33 18 stream? Lake Geneva General Shipping Co. (CGN) • Cornavin train station Tel. 157 22 22 Water is omnipresent along this walk. The very name Geneva Mouettes Genevoises passenger ferry comes from the Celtic words “gen,” mouth, and “ava,” water. • Weather conditions Tel. 162 av. de la Paix OMC OMM Car park The name Vernier also evokes water, deriving from “verne,” 4 meaning the alder, a tree particularly partial to river banks and r Sport, stadium, pool, paddleboats, tennis . de Laus wetlands. The coat of arms of Vernier is even more telling: the 3 rippled midsection symbolizes the Rhone, the trout fishing, Shoppingcenter anne La Perle du Lac and the wheel the mills. Nature and technology are inextricably 4 linked. The presence of the Rhone helped bring about the Allotted gardens 1 Villa Bartholoni industrial boom in Vernier and the increase in its population. Petting zoo, aviary av. de France The Kursaal around 1916 (SU) The waters from the lake and the Rhone have been used every Steps École day since man first settled the Geneva region: to quench thirst 4 and prepare food, to produce energy, and recently as a bonus Slope av . de France Villa Mont-Repos for tourism. 2 Underpass Parc Château -Banquet 3 Lac Léman Horloge-laser Technology and Nature, Nature and Technology, our hearts From 1 to 39, suggested itinerary for this walk Washerwomen along the banks of the Rhone (MB) Le Prieuré totter. All along this course, we see how this dichotomy Gordon Bennett Cup Station de traitement 1 influenced the evolution of Geneva, this City that belongs to all and gas holder – August 1922 (CIG) 4 du Prieuré Alternative route r. Butini 4 of us. Technology helped us progress, and today we begin to 17 r. Rothsc Pl. de realize that nature is at the root of our survival. Boat route Châteaubrilland Mill at Vernier –1880/90 (CIG) hild 5 r anne . Amat Palais Wilson Now, let the sites do the talking as they guide us along these t Rhone Dam around 1890 (MB) pédalos he nc va . de Laus marvelous waters… through pranks and high tides. t d’A r y an 4 s N piscine s u 1 o P quai W e Le Moulin d t École r. du Môle n 6 a ilson N École . des Pâquis c r h. Pâquis du 36 École M res To learn more… o Frè u s- Port des Pâquis li e Pl. de la n - d Bois-des-Frères Mills and water wheels of the Sous-Terre district Navigation • Broillet, Philippe (Ed.) (1997), La Genève sur l’eau, Bâle, around 1870 (CIG) r 1-4-8 . de Monthoux 37 Gare de Cornavin Editions Wiese, coll. Les monuments d’art et d’histoire de 9-10-6 7 13-16 Hôtel Noga-Hilton la Suisse, 89. Place de r . de Berne . des Alpesr Bains des Pâquis Cornavin 8 9 quai du Mt-Blanc ois-des-Frères Place amourHôtel 1 des Alpes Beau-Rivage • Lescaze, Bernard et Tahani S. Khalil (1997), Un opéra sur Givaudan Roure workshops around 1950 (Givaudan) rte du B 51 r. Plant 10 l’eau ou la révélation d’un lieu. L’usine des Forces Motrices GENEVA ON FOOT - NATURE AND TECHNOLOGY 13-16 Limite communale 7-27 BFM and Quai du Seujet around 1910 (MB) 1-4 6-26 Monument Brunswick de la Coulouvrenière à Genève, Genève, S. Hurter. École r. de Chantepoulet8-9-10 Place SIG Dorcière e ri r. du Mt-Blanc Vernier e onds • Mayor, Jean-Claude (1995), Bestiaire genevois, Genève, m e 7-27 fu s 33 r s Le Lignon École 11 a i c P a h. du Château-Bloc voies C.F bd. James Fazy Jet d'eau Slatkine. r c h. des F r 14 7-27 École la P t h. W c e r. du T Bus e e d Jardin d .F d 18-51 rte de l’Usine c . u h. du Furet 11 internationaux h . emple c 7-27 Aïre illiam Lescaze h Robinson B . d’ h r Mayor, Jean-Claude (1996), Genève nostalgique, c av . • o 12 d École Place quai des Bergues is École 14 34 - Piscine u d à gaz St-Gervais 13 Rade de Genève e boulodrome C av Chapelle-sur-Moudon, Ed. Ketty & Alexandre. s o . Gallatin prom. 15 Givaudan Roure - St-Jean Passerelle 32du Lignon F la n ay t École r e C r de St-Jean s Ile y è . d a 11 lin e r N t urrettini ou n 7-27-18 e u - 16 a S quai T M Rousseau r s Aïre d es • Pittard, Pierre (1975), Profil de Vernier. Des champs aux P av. d’ . Carrefour du o Jean 20 i d P e c h re c a 18 ont du Mont-Blanc d c École t u i i r. de St- h. h. de la Herse Pont-Butin École ita a je prom. des q 17 rte du P e c l l r n o r t u P cités, Vernier, Mairie de Vernier. e Anc. manège S e e e BFM P Bel-Air k - j S 22 Lavandières quai de l’Ile ont de la Mac r -T u 19 ont de l’Ile n u Jean s e u 24 A e r. de St- ou S d quai des Halles de l’Île ac Aïre École n S u e 21 . P a e École r d ag ont-Butin École i r Is Pigeonnier m 27 r ont de la Coulouvrenière Vernex, Jean-Claude (1996), Histoire des bains. Cents ans École . a ont des Bergues • h rte d’ École o u a Forces Motrices c r q B P P 23 Cité du Lignon sentier des Falaises Prieuré de 25 u de baignades dans nos lacs. Annecy, Bourget, Léman, d Saint-Jean-des-Grottes UGDO 31 hine r Alouette e i t 26 Genève, N. Junod. n Grand Champ 7-27-18 h. de l’ 30 e 7-27-4 35 c s Bat. P 1 erre Cimetière ont Butin Rhône 7-27-18 T Gare D 22 . du Lignon Station de pompage av c 28 Oisellerie c h. du Passeur h Aïre de St-Jean . 7-27-18 For another point of view… N c ont de Sous- Bat. P - h B . 29 L’Arve Rhône o d g u 7-27-18 u École G Ferme er r • Association genevoise pour la protection de la nature et al. hards et a n d r Bonaventure t -C c e h. John Branc (1996) Parcours découverte – Genève-Verbois au fil du . Passerelle de Chèvres h d Loex a e h. de Blanc m C c p h Maison Rhône. è 15 vr de Loex V es hu 39 iaduc ferroviaire de la Jonction ch. du Descombes, Julien (1995), Le Fil du Rhône, Genève, Ville Re • nard h. des Platières de Genève, Fonds municipal de décoration. c Bat. Bois-de-la-Bâtie Genève 51 Rhône en temps-piétons h. des Lézards (à raison de 5km/h) c • Tranchet, Vérène (1999), Petit guide historique du promeneur. Association des commerçants de la rue du École Village de Vernier. Tennis es ièr ell 51 s S e t • Muséum de Genève - Histoire naturelle et Mouettes . d e Coulouvrenière Bridge around 1900 (MB) ch u aq -J is genevoises navigation, Descente du Rhône en bateau o 38 B u Caution d Step Aïre . jusqu’au barrage de Verbois (Genève). h c John Branchu passenger ferry around 1900 (CIG) Rousseau Island and Mont-Blanc bridge • Estimated walking time: 4 hrs 51 25 18 16 around 1905 (CIG) • The paths shown on this map may occasionally pose some inconveniences which we’ve called your attention to (see the pedestrian plan collection Le symbols below). Rhône This itinerary forms part of the Pedestrian Plan collection of walks conceived by the Planning Office of the City of Geneva. Please, be careful again... Chèvres factory around 1896 (MB) The banks of the Rhone are part of a highly valued habitat Les Evaux feature. A walk of this kind naturally implies abiding by certain Walking in Geneva… Geneva by foot. It’s quick and easy. rules so as to not disturb the wildlife. These banks are a impressum veritable biological corridor through the Canton and home to many animal species.