Park
Parc des Bastions
Tree-lined promenade over old city ramparts, framed by a banker's mansion and giant chess boards.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to Parc des Bastions in Geneva centers on Palais Eynard, the ochre mansion a banker named Jean-Gabriel Eynard built against the old fortress wall in eighteen seventeen with money made far from Geneva. It follows Eynard's rise through olive oil, gum and banking in Genoa and Italy, his wife Anna's hand in designing the house alongside architect Giovanni Salucci, and the meeting at the Congress of Vienna that turned him toward Greece's cause. His palace still faces the park he helped carve down to size, on ground where a soldier once kept watch on the old city wall.
This audio guide was created using AI.