| Page Views: 2,488 Last Visit to Annemasse: June, 2003 | Geneva satellite town? by Ritchie_Lionheart - last update: Jun 4, 2005 |
The gateway to the Franch Alps Annemasse, a French border city with a pop. of roughly 80'000 some 10 km SE from international Geneva, has a stoid local French working-class character. It is host to a twice weekly large open-air market on Tuesday and Friday mornings. An important effort was made during the last decade to embellish the town center, which used to be quite an ugly combination of downrun old buildings. It also has a local airfield with hard runway, a number of 3-star hotels, a variety of restaurants, many shops and supermarkets, and an important regional rail and bus station: the gateway to the Haute-Savoie resorts such as Evian and Thonon, Chamonix and the Mont-Blanc, Annecy etc. |
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| Pros: | "Provides useful and often resonably priced services (shopping, accomodation)" | | Cons: | "Dull in the evening and on Sundays, but Geneva is not far" | | In A Nutshell: | "OK for eating and sleeping" |
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JLBG Sat Aug 12, 2006 06:52 UTC
Yes, indeed, Annemasse has turned into a satellite city to Geneva, almost a dormitory city though it has several industries (pharmaceutical plants for example) but almost no cultural activities. |
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