Geneva's official chestnut tree, the Treille, put out its first leaf on Thursday. Recorded since March 16, 1818, this event symbolically marks the arrival of spring at the end of the lake. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox "The date of March 5 is in line with observations in recent years, where the first leaf has appeared between March 3 and 24," explains Laurent Koelliker, the current “sautier”, the secretary general of the cantonal parliament. One of the duties of the sautier is to monitor the emergence of the first leaf. Adapted from French by AI/ts How we work We select the most relevant news for an international audience and use automatic translation tools to translate them into English. A journalist then reviews the translation for clarity and accuracy before publication. Providing you with automatically translated news gives us the time to write more in-depth articles. The news stories we select have been written and carefully fact-checked by an ...
