Windows of Geneve

I never truly paid much attention to Geneva’s architecture and to be honest I still don’t know how to describe it. My German comrade defines it as ‘Southern’ but I can’t be sure what that truly means. Wikipedia indicates that it is a confluence of Romanesque, Classicism and Gothic but my crude eyes still can’t fully fathom its character. The one consistency I note are wrought iron balconies and wooden coloured shutters that accompanies their windows, so here’s my collection of snaps of the same.