Jardin Anglais
Lakeside garden centered on a living flower clock with the world's longest second hand.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Jardin Anglais in Geneva starts with the flower clock at the edge of the lake, where a two-and-a-half-metre bronze second hand still beats any visitor who races it around the dial. You'll hear how the bed of roughly six thousand five hundred living plants came together in nineteen fifty-five to marry Geneva's two great loves, precision watchmaking and gardening, and briefly held the title of the world's largest flower clock before Tehran outdid it. The guide also traces the ground beneath your feet back to eighteen fifty-five, when this stretch was a working harbor the city chose to hand over to strollers instead of cargo.
This audio guide was created using AI.