Salève

The campus is right at the foot of the Salève.

21 km long, the Salève is 1,379 metres high.

The Salève forests are mainly composed of chestnut, oak, scots pine, spice, beech, hornbeam and maple trees.

The fauna includes wild boar, badgers, deer and chamois.

There is a road to reach the summit and several trails.

Activities: nature discovery, hiking, climbing, paragliding, mountain biking, model aircraft,

« Te souviens-tu du jour où gravissant la cime
Du Salève aux flancs azurés,
Dans un étroit sentier qui pend sur un abîme
Nous posions en tremblant nos pas mal assurés?"

 Lamartine,1825

Cities

15 minutes away

Geneva (CH)

• City: the jet d'eau, the flower clock, the lake
• History: old town, protestant reformation
• International: UN, Red cross and Red crescent, WHO 
• Others: CERN, museums, shopping

 

40 minutes away:

Annecy

Old town, lake, mountains, gastronomy

Yvoire

Medieval city, lake

 

1 hour away:

Chamonix

• Capital of the Alps, gastronomy
• Mont Blanc, cable-car of l'aiguille du midi (12 605ft), sea of ice

Lausanne (CH)

Olympic museum, lake, cathedral

 

1 hour 30 away:

Lyon

• Third city of France
• Old town, "traboules", roman ruins, "bouchons lyonnais" (gastronomy)
• Basilica Notre Dame de Fourvière, Cathedral saint Jean-Baptiste
• Place Bellecour, park de la tête d'Or, shopping, le Rhône

Gruyères (CH)

Medieval city, cheese house (gruyère), chocolate factory Cailler (Broc)

 

 

Sports and recreations

Winter sports

• Ski resorts: Morzine, Megève, Chamonix, La Clusaz, Avoriaz etc. (1 hour away)
• Skating rinks, sled dogs, snowshoes, all snow and ice sports

Summer sports

• Hiking in medium and high mountains, paragliding, trail, mountain biking, walking
• Climbing, via ferrata, speleology

Recreations

• Hiking, nature discovery, animal parks
• Lake Léman, lake of Annecy, mountains lakes, swimming pool
• Cinémas, bowling, escape game

 

Culture

Heritage

• Churches: Saint-Nicolas (Combloux), chapelle (Charly), Notre-Dame-de-Toute-Grâce (Passy)
• Castles: Châteauvieux (Duingt), Sales (Fillière), Menthon, La Roche sur Foron, Montrottier, Chillon (CH)
• Monuments: Bridge of la Caille (Allonzier-la-Caille), Plateau des Glières (hight place of resistance)

Museums

• Haute-Savoie: Paccard (Sevrier), ecomuseum du lac (Sevrier), crystals (Chamonix), Mechanical music (Les Gets)
• Genève: Ethnography, Museum of natural history, red cross and red crescent, of art and history, of the reformation, Patek Philippe
• Suisse: Chaplin (Vevey-CH), Fondation Pierre Gianadda (Martigny-CH), Fondation de l'Hermitage (Lausanne)

 

By fliying

International airport of Geneva "Cointrin" (20 minutes from Campus)

Destinations to ...:

1h00 : Milan (IT), Nice (FR)

1h15 : Bordeaux (FR), Brussels (BE), Corsica (FR), Florence (IT), Munich (DE), Paris (FR), Venice (IT)

1h30 : Amsterdam (NL), Barcelona (ES), London (UK), Prague (CZ), Roma (IT)

1h45 : Berlin (DE), Budapest (HU), Dubrovnik (HR), Ibiza (ES), Naples (IT), Valencia (ES), Vienna (AT)

2h00 : Belgrade (RS), Copenhagen (DK), Madrid (ES), Malta (MT), Sicily (IT), Tunis (TN)

2h15 : Dublin (IE), Edinburgh (UK), Porto (PT), Warsaw (PL)

2h30 : Bucharest (RO), Lisbon (PT), Oslo (NO), Seville (ES), Sofia (BG)

2h45 : Athens (GR), Kiev (UA), Mykonos (GR), Riga (LV), Stockholm (SE)

3h00 : Crete (GR), Helsinki (FI)

3h15 : Istanbul (TR), Marrakech (MA)

3h30 : Moscow (RU)