Saint-Gervais

About this audio guide

This guide to Saint-Gervais in Geneva follows what archaeologists found beneath the square by its temple: traces of human presence reaching back six thousand years, on ground people kept choosing to bury their dead and raise their sanctuaries on, era after era. You will hear how a Gallo-Roman pagan shrine gave way to a Christian church built directly over it, and how each faith that followed treated the same patch of earth as its own. Best heard standing in the square, facing the temple that still stands there.