Palais des Nations
GE 1201, Switzerland, Canton Geneva, Geneva, 14 Avenue de la Paix
Description:
The Palace of Nations is a unique architectural complex, built from 1929 to 1938, located in Geneva on the territory of the Ariana Park. It is the second palace complex in Europe, and its size is second only to Versailles. Every year it is visited by more than one hundred thousand tourists. Until 1946, the Palais des Nations was used as the headquarters of the League of Nations. Since 1966, the Geneva European Office of the United Nations has been located on the territory of the Palace, the second largest UN residence in the world.
Also in the Palace are the offices of the regional offices of UNESCO, IAEA, UNCTAD, OCHA. It is also home to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations Industrial Development Committee.
About eight thousand meetings are held annually at the Geneva headquarters of the United Nations, about 600 of which are major and significant conferences of a global scale.