Parc La Grange

In 1864 a meeting of the first conference of the International Committee of the Red Cross was held in the villa La Grange on the invitation of its owner, Edmond Favre (1812-1880).

[1] On June 10, 1969 Pope Paul VI celebrated during his visit of Geneva at La Grange a mass with some 70,000 people present in the park.

Guy Parmelin, President of Switzerland, greeted Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin wishing them a useful meeting.

[4] In the villa La Grange there are some rooms for the rich library with more than 12,000 old books which today are a precious part of the Bibliothèque de Genève.

[5] A portrait of the library's creator Guillaume Favre is part of the Geneva Musée d'Art et d'Histoire collection.