Geneva - CERN (nuclear research facility)

(Local Name: Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire) About 2km/1mi beyond " Palexpo" near Geneva is the frontier town of Meyrin, a large residential suburb with an Alpine garden. Here, too, is the nuclear research facility CERN (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire: partly on French territory), with a 600 MeV synchro-cyclotron, a 28 GeV proton synchroton, storage rings and a super proton synchroton (7km/4mi long ring tunnel). In 1989 the Large Electronic Position Storage Ring (LEP), 27km/17mi long, was completed.

4km/2mi west of the town, in a bend of the Rhône, is the residential development of Le Lignon, a striking example of modern architecture housing a population of 15,000.