History

No other city has a richer history of international cooperation than Geneva. Discover it here.

 

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Historical Milestones

Discover the timeline of International Geneva history.

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History through images

Discover history through images from the archives of the international organizations based in Geneva. 

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Geneva Nobel prizes

No less than 20 Nobel prizes – most of them for Peace – have been awarded to personalities and organizations linked with it.

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They came to Geneva

Discover some of the personalities who have placed Geneva under the scoop since 1926.

Book
Book: Geneva and the call of internationalism

How did Geneva acquire its international renown? With this book, Joëlle Kuntz takes a concise and irreverent look at a story that is familiar yet seldom told: the emergence of Geneva as an international city.

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Book: International Geneva, 100 years of architecture

This book retraces the various stages leading to the construction of the buildings that make up the city's international quarter today.