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Hedi Priamajar (49168)

Hôtel-de-Ville with an atmospheric internal arcaded courtyard, from where it’s easy to spot the different styles of the building – going counterclockwise, the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

rnrnAhead is the Alabama Room, where the Geneva Convention on the humanitarian rules of war was signed by sixteen countries in 1864, and where, in 1872, conflict between two states was solved in a neutral state for the first time, when Britain and the US settled their differences over British support for the Confederacy during the Civil War. rn

rnThe League of Nations also assembled here for the first time in 1920. This is one of only three buildings in Europe to have a sloping ramp inside instead of stairs (the others are on the Loire and at Schaffhausen), both to facilitate cannons being pulled up to the ramparts and, so it’s said, to enable councillors to arrive at meetings on horseback or in their sedan chair. You can work your way up to the top – feeling like an Escher drawing come to life – but the doors are all firmly locked.rn

Source : Geneva Tourism Website

• Nilai foto: 95
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• Waktu upload: Selasa, 21 Feb 2006
• Lokasi: Geneva, Switzerland

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• Aperture: f/9.0
• Speed: 1/15
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• Kamera: Canon EOS 20D *
• Lensa: Sigma 15mm f/2.8 EX Fisheye *
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