Market
Halle de Rive
Last surviving covered market hall in the country, its stalls tucked beneath twin apartment towers.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Halle de Rive covered market in Geneva follows the merchants who work its stalls today, cheesemonger Dominique Ryser among them, and traces the market's near-loss during Geneva's building boom of the late nineteen sixties. You will hear what became of the market's twenty-some traders during those years, and why this is now the last covered market hall left in Switzerland. Best heard walking slowly past the cheese counters and bakeries, looking up as you go.
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