Geneva City Hall
Renaissance civic hall with a horse-ready ramp, once host to a landmark international arbitration.
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This guide to Geneva City Hall traces the strange career of the Enrica, a merchant ship that left Liverpool in 1862 without weapons aboard, then transformed into the Confederate raider CSS Alabama and spent two years burning Union ships across the Atlantic. After a Union warship sank her off Cherbourg in 1864, Washington's fury nearly pushed Britain and the United States toward war. You'll hear how diplomats from five nations gathered in a reception room here to argue over a disguised ship's true intentions, port call by port call. Step into the Alabama Room, still hung with a portrait of her captain and a artwork of swords turned to ploughshares.
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