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The Palais des Nations, in Geneva, is a famous building in Geneva, Switzerland, located on the shores of Lake Geneva on the northeastern outskirts of Geneva, opposite the majestic Alps.

Surrounded by greenery, the environment is beautiful. The Palais des Nations, also known as the League of Nations Building, is the headquarters of the "League of Nations", the predecessor of the United Nations, and is now the United Nations Office in Geneva, also known as the European Headquarters of the United Nations.

The Palais des Nations consists of four magnificent complexes, with the General Assembly Hall in the center, the library and the new building on the north, and the Council Chamber on the south, with gardens and courtyards, covering a total area of 2.5 square kilometers.

It used to be the seat of the League of Nations and is now the headquarters of the United Nations Office at Geneva. It is a symbol of Geneva as an international city and a microcosm of the world's recent history.

The Palais des Nations is located in the Ariane Park, overlooking Lake Geneva and Mont Blanc, the highest mountain in Europe.

The Palais des Nations consists of 4 magnificent complexes, namely the General Assembly Hall in the center, the library on the north side, the new building and the Council Hall on the south side. It is a center for important international conferences and attracts visitors throughout the year.

The Palais des Nations is the location of the headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, in 1929 in a manor called "Ariana Park" laid the foundation stone, started in 1931, completed in 1937, its scale is naturally not small, covering an area of 326,000 square meters, in August 1946, after the dissolution of the League of Nations, the Palais des Nations officially became the property of the newly established United Nations, and reopened under the name of "United Nations European Office".

Hidden under the cornerstone of the Palais des Nations was a small box containing a list of the members of the League of Nations, a copy of the Covenant of the League, and samples of the coins of all the countries present at the Tenth Congress of the League.

The building is facing Lake Geneva and the French Alps across the lake.

Standing in front of the window of the Palais des Nations, you can see a 40-storey high, century-old artificial fountain, and the scenery is spectacular.

The Palais des Nations is built in a "cosmopolitan style", with Italian lime on the outside, limestone from the Rhône and Jura on the outside, marble from France, Italy and Sweden on the inside, and brown linen carpets from the Philippines...... In addition, the decorations and furnishings donated by the member states also fully reflect the diversity of cultures, and the appreciation and taste is like walking into a miniature "World Cultural Grand View Garden".

The central hall is a majestic and dignified old-style building, with floors and walls all paved with granite and marble.

The circular hall has more than 1,800 seats on six floors, with delegates at the front and auditoriums at the back.

There are also a number of small and medium-sized meeting rooms around the General Assembly Hall. The council hall on the south side is a palace-style building, and it is decorated with grace and magnificence. The tall doors and windows are mostly made of copper, and some are gilded.

The walls and ceilings are covered with paintings by European masters. The themes of the painting are: justice, strength, peace, law, and wisdom.

There is also a relief mural that stretches across the ceiling, depicting five giant hands of five giants in the universe clasped together, symbolizing the unity and friendship of the peoples of the five continents of the world. The General Assembly Hall and the Council Chamber are the venues for important meetings.

The new building is 29 meters high, with 12 floors above and below ground, and a construction area of 380,000 square meters. The new building is preceded by a four-storey conference hall building with 10 conference halls equipped with simultaneous interpretation, the largest of which is called the "Swiss Room", which was sponsored by the Swiss Federal Government.

There are also more than 700 offices in the new building. Two frescoes, symbolic of war and peace, created by French artists, hang in front of the conference hall.

In Ariana Park, the site of the Palais des Nations, stands a giant gilded bronze armillary sphere presented by the United States in honor of President Wilson, a striking monument to the conquest of the universe from the former Soviet Union, and a sculpture created by Egyptian artists to commemorate the International Year of the Child.

The Palais des Nations was built to hold meetings. For example, the largest conference room in the city, the Zao City Hall, can accommodate about 2,000 delegates.

In the '50s and '60s, the Palais des Nations could also meet the needs of the United Nations in those years, but with the increase in United Nations activities, a major expansion was necessary.

In 1968, U Thant, then Secretary-General of the United Nations, laid the foundation stone for the expansion of the Palais des Nations, which was completed in 1973. Today, the new and old buildings can be used to fully meet the needs of 192 Member States, numerous observer organizations, accredited non-governmental organizations and specialized agencies.

The library occupies the entire east wing of the Palais des Nations. The construction of the library was financed in part by a special fund provided by Mr. John Rockefeller Jr., who also donated a large number of books to the Library of the League of Nations.

The well-organized collection of books occupies ten floors, including the basement. Today, the library has a collection of more than 1 million books, and its collection of social science books is extremely rich, ranking among the best in the world.

The Library also houses more than 4 million United Nations documents, 500,000 publications of specialized agencies and some 9,000 periodicals. The library also has an excellent archive with valuable materials from the League of Nations and its previous periods.

The armillary sphere, donated by the Wilson Presidential Foundation of the United States, was installed in Ariana Park, which surrounds the Palais des Nations, in 1938. It has become a symbol of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

The Great Hall of the Palais des Nations is surrounded by a huge foyer and many side halls. The foyer is spacious enough for celebrations and receptions.

There is a cloister high above the foyer, and the parapets are all made of marble. Soaring floor-to-ceiling windows overlook the National Flag Square. The floor of the foyer is covered with dark red granite from Finland.

The ceiling is a square light green caisson well. During the day, daylight enters the foyer and is softened by the tones of the room, while at night, chandeliers illuminate the hall with light from the ceiling.

This beautiful room is the waiting room, next to the Director-General's office, and is fully furnished as a gift from Hungary.

The room is not big, casual and comfortable. Books and porcelain statues are placed in the corner cabinets. On a table made of precious wood stands a modern candelabra.

The upholstered backrest of the chair is decorated with a palm leaf pattern. Set in a walnut frame are three tapestries by Mr. Baslied, depicting the harvest of wheat, wine and fruit.

The artwork on display at the Palais des Nations is very special. It is not like other works of art that were not given by an ambassador of a Member State.

Its author, Juan José Pedrosa, is a joiner who has been working at the United Nations Office at Geneva since 1974.

There is an old tradition of "guild members" in the crafts industry, and each member is required to create a masterpiece that shows his or her exceptional skill. Inspired by this, Mr. Pedrosa spent 2,800 hours of his spare time making the pellets from 1986 to 1991.

It symbolizes the idea of inclusiveness and the idea of human beings working hand in hand. Only three kinds of wood are used for the whole pellet: ash in light colour, beech in red and dark colours, and boxwood for screws and nuts. The pellets are 1.6 meters in diameter and weigh 400 kilograms.

Broken leg bench In 1979, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's granddaughter Sandis cast the bronze statue called "Family" as a gift to the United Nations. The statue depicts a man and a woman, and the hollow part is a child with arms outstretched, representing the international community's hope that children will grow up healthily under the care of adults.

In 1996, a group of non-governmental organizations erected the 10-metre-high bench on the United Nations Square outside the Palais des Nations to call the attention of society to the harm caused by landmines to civilians. Since then, the Broken Leg Bench has become a symbol of the United Nations Plaza.

Gift from the Chinese government: The "Temple of Heaven" wool tapestry presented to the United Nations by the Chinese government in 1984, 3.65 meters long and 2.75 meters wide. No matter how you look at it, the door of the Temple of Heaven is always facing the viewer. This is a must-see "attraction" for visitors to the Palais des Nations.

The Palais des Nations in Geneva, where the United Nations Office for Europe is located, is one of Europe's most important cultural centres due to the sheer number of works of art it collects, the wide range of subjects and the diversity of materials used.

After the First World War, the League of Nations was founded in Geneva. The Gustav family in Geneva donated the Ariane Garden to the League of Nations and built the Palais des Nations as the office of the League of Nations.

The League of Nations wanted to show the diversity of world cultures through the works of its artists, expose the disasters caused by war and the hope of mankind for peace, and the members of the League of Nations donated a large number of works of art to this purpose.

After World War II, the United Nations replaced the League of Nations, and the Palais des Nations became the seat of the European office of the United Nations.

The Palais des Nations has a collection of nearly 10,000 pieces, covering works by more than 80 governments of the United Nations and world-renowned artists.

His works range from sculpture, murals, oil paintings, and watercolors to a wide range of genres, from classicism to surrealism, and from oil, watercolor, glass, and silk to masonry and nails.

The Palais des Nations has a total of 5 works of art donated by China. In 1935, the old Chinese government presented the League of Nations with a cloisonné vase, a set of silk embroidery paintings and a set of Changsha embroidery paintings.

In 1984 and 1987, the Chinese government presented the United Nations with a tapestry of the Temple of Heaven and a bronze imitation of the Han Dynasty.

In winter, the Palais des Nations allowed the suburban farmers to bring their flocks into the courtyard to raise them, which not only fed the sheep and maintained the lawns, but also became a beautiful scenery in the urban area of Geneva.

Tourism makes Switzerland earn a lot of money every year, and the city of Geneva can increase a lot of tourism income because of the existence of the Palais des Nations.