Lake Geneva - north bank

For centuries the beauty of the northern shores of Lake Geneva has been lauded (e.g. by Byron, Voltaire and Rousseau), the luxuriantly fertile slopes rising gently above the lake, the picturesque towns and old castles, the magnificent backdrop of the Savoy and Valais Alps to the south and east. The climate has a southern mildness in which the vine flourishes. The road along the shore of the lake from Geneva runs through Genthod (restaurant on lake) and the little town of Versoix, enters the canton of Vaud (8km/5mi) and comes to Coppet.