Market
Marché du dimanche de Plainpalais
Weekly farmers market of cheese, produce, wine and flowers set on a former marsh once farmed as a city vegetable garden.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Marche du dimanche de Plainpalais in Geneva starts in the mud, tracing how a soggy, unbuildable triangle between the Rhone and the Arve became a market garden by the 1700s, farmed by growers priced out of the city they fed. It follows the plain through the commune's purchase of the drained land in 1848 and its turn as host to Switzerland's National Exhibition in 1896. You'll hear how the old trade of cheese, fish, wine and flowers crept back onto the same ground every Sunday since. Look for the canton's quality label on a stall before you buy.
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