Carouge Market
Open-air market square ringed by ceramicists, glassblowers and jewelers in an eighteenth-century Sardinian town grid.
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This guide to Carouge Market in Geneva goes back to the 1760s, when Victor Amadeus the Third of Sardinia ordered a rival town built from nothing across the river, deliberately Catholic, informal and Mediterranean where Geneva was strict and guarded by its guilds. It follows how this square became that new town's stage, and how the craftspeople who settled here, ceramicists, glassblowers, jewelers, bookbinders, never really left. You'll hear why locals half-joke about calling the district Geneva's own Greenwich Village. Come on a Wednesday or Saturday morning to see the argument still being made.
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