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31 May

Day Trip to Jungfraujoch

About 80 kilometers from Lucerne, the World Heritage-listed Jungfraujoch is known as the Top of Europe, and is home to the highest railroad station on the continent at 3,454 meters. You can go even higher on an elevator, which leads to the 3,573-meter summit of the Sphinx. A great way to soak up this stunning […]

31 May

Bourbaki Panorama

Perhaps the most unusual attraction in Lucerne is the enormous panoramic painting and sculpture depicting the escape of 87,000 members of the French army to Switzerland during the Franco-Prussian War in the winter of 1871. The circular painting and three-dimensional foreground are the work of Edouard Castres, who traveled with the army as a Red […]

31 May

Engelberg-Titlis

About 35 kilometers south of Lucerne, Engelberg-Titlis is Central Switzerland’s biggest winter and summer vacation destination and one of Switzerland’s top 10 ski resorts. Towered over by 3,239-meter-high Mount Titlis, the village of Engelberg is famous for its 12th-century Benedictine monastery, where monks still live and work today. In the summer, the area is a […]

31 May

Walk or Hike to Lakeside Viewpoints

Lucerne and its surroundings are a paradise for walkers and hikers, with flat lakeside paths and more challenging day-long hikes in steeper terrain. Closest to the city is the level walking path circling Lake Rot, through a nature reserve. There’s a beach and a playground along the way, and places to picnic. More demanding, but also […]

31 May

Gletschergarten (Glacier Garden)

This remarkable relic of the Ice Age includes glacier-polished rock, erratic boulders dropped by the retreating ice, and 32 potholes formed at the base of waterfalls of melting glacial ice. Some of them are huge, and their formation is demonstrated by a working model of the process. Exhibits also show how the changing climate affects […]

31 May

Museum Sammlung Rosengart (Rosengart Collection)

f you’re at all interested in Post-Impressionist art, this relatively new art museum alone is worth a trip to Lucerne. Particularly strong in works by Paul Klee and Pablo Picasso, the collection also features important works of more than 20 artists of the 19th and 20th centuries, among them Cézanne, Monet, Chagall, Braque, Kandinsky, Léger, […]