Geneva is the origin of the Calvinistic stream of Protestantism, and therefore a tempered place that generally frowns on decadent architecture, especially when related to people, despite that there is a massive and richly decorated tomb for Charles II, Duke of Brunswick, right next to Lake Geneva. The tomb was built in 1879. It was designed by Swiss architect Jean Franel and modeled after the 14th-century Scalinger Tombs in Verona. The Duke of Brunswick, a very wealthy man, had left his entire fortune to the city of Geneva, with one big…
