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Gazetteer Bureau
Bureau of Tourism & Exploration · Est. 1954 (fictional)
Geneva — Jet d'eau 140 m. Vintage travel badge drawn in flat colour, Gazetteer Bureau.

Geneva

Jet d'eau 140 m

The fountain began as a safety valve on the city's hydraulic network and was kept for its appearance. Five hundred litres a second, to a height of a hundred and forty metres. The Bureau approves of works that outlive their purpose. The city entered the Confederation in 1815, long after it had finished being a republic of its own. The register carries the later date because it is the one that can be documented, and notes that Geneva was old before it was Swiss.

DesignationInternational City
Gazetted1815
Standing noticeJet d'eau 140 m
Issuing officeGazetteer Bureau of Tourism & Exploration
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The source image

The badge is drawn, not photographed. Each drawing works from a reference image in the public domain or under a free licence — a photochrom print, a photograph, an etching. Here is the one used for this destination, and why it was chosen.

The drawing follows a photograph of the Jet d'Eau taken in May 2024. It shows the column entire, from basin to plume, against open sky, with the lake and the far shore. Without the lake, a lone column of water reads as a palm tree — the Bureau tried it. The jet rises to a hundred and forty metres, the figure printed on the band, and not a hundred and fifty as is often read. It throws five hundred litres a second. It began not as an ornament but as a valve: the city's pressurised water main had to discharge somewhere at the close of day, and the discharge was kept for its looks. The Bureau approves of works that outlive their purpose.

Jet d'eau May 2024

Credit
Albinfo
Held by
Wikimedia Commons, 2024
Licence
CC0

View the original consulted 2026-08-12

Sources

Every figure engraved on this badge is checked against a public source before it is used. Consultation dates are given.

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