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Some clichés just go round and round, like the gnomes stacking gold under the streets of Zurich and the weird hidden world of the Swiss military. Like all good clichés this last one works because there’s plenty of truth in it. I’ve been inside the mountain bunker in Lucerne which has hundreds of hospital beds and while I wouldn’t want to stay there long, it is an impressive place.

So when I had this video, made in 2000 by French TV, sent to me I had a good laugh. And then remembered something I read just yesterday, about a secret spot in Geneva: near the Molard tram stop, at the bottom of the rue de la Fontaine and Rue Toutes-Ames, you’ll find three doors, one which has a strange sculptured ornament over the door. It’s a bomb, falling on a city. Behind it? An air-raid shelter, in the heart of Geneva. Plenty more like this in Switzerland.

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