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May 5, 2024
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The small Gothic chapel underlines the sobriety of the Calvinist philosophy.
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September 4, 2025
Hiking
The origin of the name Taconnery is uncertain: it comes either from the word "fun," meaning leather, used by the shoemakers established there, or from the surname Tacon, which was important in the 15th and 16th centuries, although it is unknown whether it was owned by a house on this square.
Source and further information at:
noms-geographiques.app.ge.ch/voie/geneve/place-de-la-taconnerie
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