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Geneva Festival pulls in half million for fireworks; damages, theft on rise

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:46:02 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The Geneva Festival was a great success in 2011, pulling in more than 500,000 visitors for the Saturday night fireworks alone, says the city’s tourism office, but the downside was that the number of thefts and amount of vandalism rose. Overall, some 1.8 million visitors took part in the 10 days of [...]

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Geneva Festival welcomes “Incredible India!”

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 08:34:50 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Prepare to eat well, if you like Indian food, with India as Geneva’s guest for the 2011 Fêtes de Genève. Workers are scurrying Wednesday 3 August to set up stalls in the city centre for the Geneva Festival, the English name for the annual city party that draws 100,000 people. It opens [...]

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Paleo fought the mud and won, other summer festival gear up

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 08:49:06 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Final tally for the Paleo open-air music festival in Nyon, which closed Sunday night: a record 62 mm of rain, 1,130 m3 of straw, 475 m3 of wood chips and 50 of gravel, to keep the fields dry enough for the music to go on. The result was 230,000 concert-goers and good [...]

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Paleo opens its doors, Fêtes de Genève follows in 2 days

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:11:45 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Parking contingency plan in place with heavy rains forecast GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – It’s music season at the southwestern tip of Lake Geneva, with Paleo opening today, 19 July, and the Fêtes de Genève 21 July. Paleo is welcoming its fans on the first day with cool (highs of 16C), soggy weather, but that’s unlikely to [...]

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Geneva’s tourists now have angels

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:43:09 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Geneva’s tourism and convention office is giving out wings this week, to a new group called Tourist Angels, whose mission from 11 July to 15 August is to help tourists. Eight brightly clad teams of two will walk around the busiest tourist areas, mainly the waterfront, the old town in Geneva and [...]

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The Fetes de Geneve a great success

Laila Rodriguez — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 08:41:14 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The crowds turned out again for the Fetes de Geneve, 2 million people flocked to the streets during the three-week festival, while an estimated half-a-million attended the firework show on Saturday 7 August. The giant party is home to about 150 food stalls and restaurants, 65 rides and musical offers every [...]

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63rd Fêtes de Geneve attracts 2 million visitors

Sean Ecker — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 08:05:46 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Jean-Pierre Jobin, the president of Genève Tourisme, the organizers of the Fêtes de Geneve, says that the 2009 festivities attracted over two million people, and that this year’s edition was “exceptional”, thanks in great part to the weather. The budget this year was about CHF 3 million, and the Fêtes are [...]

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Fêtes de Geneve finale with a bang

Sean Ecker — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 10:02:48 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - More than 500,000 people turned out for the musical big-bangs end to the 63rd edition of Geneva’s colourful Fetes de Geneve. The fireworks and music display, reportedly the largest in the city’s history, started at 22:00 and lasted for almost an hour. It was a treat! Various pyrotechnical companies competed to [...]

Weekend weather in Lake Geneva region, Zurich, Locarno, for fêtes

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:43:28 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Locarno, Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Storms are building up and showers are promised for all areas on Saturday, not the best news for the Street Parade in Zurich or those who like to stroll around Geneve during the Fêtes de Geneve. The good news is that skies should clear, particularly in the west, late [...]

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It’s party weekend coming up

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:41:48 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Zurich and Sion, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – You have to go out of your way to avoid festivals in Switzerland in the summer, starting with the two big July music festivals, Montreux Jazz Festival and Paleo in Nyon, with several smaller but very popular festivals around the same time. The Fêtes de Geneve is underway, with [...]