Founded in 1919, the Palace of Nations is located in Ariana Park in the city of Geneva, and it once served as the headquarter of League of Nations. Originally built between 1929 and 1936, the Palace of Nations is now the European headquarters of the United Nations, the international organization’s most important seat outside the New York.
The palace with its buildings constitutes the second largest building complex in Europe after Versailles, a royal country house in the region of France. Beneath the Palace of Nations’s foundation stone is a time capsule containing a document listing the names of the League of Nations member states, a copy of the Covenant of the League, and specimen coins of all the countries represented at the leaque’s Tenth Assembly.
This centre of the world diplomacy greets more than 25,000 delegates every year. It flaunts a great number of artworks in its rooms. The building can be visited every day. Among many of its works of art, the most amazing is probably the ceiling of the Human Rights and Alliance for Civilization Room, painted by the artist Miquel Barcelo and donated by the Spanish government. The building overlooks Lake Geneva and has a clear view of the French Alps.