It is a little as if time has stopped in Carouge. Behind the carefully restored facades is an unexpected and poetic universe. With their typical friendliness, families will open their private houses* to visitors and share with them the unseen side of the décor, the gardens and the secret courtyards. Craftsmen will show you their workshops*: the glass blowers, bookbinders, weavers and watch makers. Harmonious architecture, a past charged with history and a convivial atmosphere has prompted the establishment of numerous artistic centres in Carouge in such varied disciplines as painting, cartoon cinema, music and the theatre. 

Everything in Carouge conjures up images of fine food and conviviality and this doesn’t date just from yesterday! As long ago as 1780, Carouge had 143 drinking houses. If many have disappeared today, a good supper still figures highly among the favourite occupations of the men and women of Carouge and also among those from Geneva who don’t shy from crossing the Arve River to reshape the world over some gastronomic delicacy or a more humble plate.