Landmark
Eaux-Vives
Lakeside district built by fishermen, boatmen and calico printers before it became a working harbor quarter.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to the Eaux-Vives district of Geneva traces its rise from marshland to a lakeside working quarter, home to the blue-stained hands of calico cloth printers like the workshop built by Jean-Philippe Petit in the 1700s. It follows the trade's abrupt collapse after French tariffs shut out its exports around 1785, and the working harbor, the Port de la Scie, that replaced it by 1836, alive with cargo boats and lakeside trade. Picture the printing tables that once lined these paved-over streets as you walk them today.
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