Tourist attraction
La Jonction
Point where two rivers meet in different colors and resist mixing for a visible stretch.
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About this audio guide
This guide to La Jonction in Geneva follows the spot where the turquoise Rhone, filtered clean by Lake Geneva, meets the milky, glacier-fed Arve without immediately blending. It traces the site's older life as market gardens that gave nearby streets their names, and two very different explanations people bring to the water's visible seam: a Quranic verse about two seas kept apart by a barrier, and the physical differences travelers and locals argue over instead. Stand at the rail and watch the line between the two colors while you listen.
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