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31 May

Museggmauer & Türme (Town Walls and Towers)

Along the north side of Lucerne’s old town is a wall built between 1350 and 1408, with nine towers constructed in differing styles. The part built around 1386 is still almost completely intact, and you can climb four of the towers – Schirmer, Zyt, Wacht, and Männli – for views across the city, lake, and […]

31 May

Verkehrshaus der Schweiz (Swiss Transport Museum)

The large complex of exhibition halls and outdoor exhibits cover all forms of transport, as well as communications and tourism. Through rolling stock and railway locomotives and both models and actual examples of ships, aircraft, rockets, and automobiles, you’ll follow the development of transportation from its earliest days, especially in its mechanized forms. An entire […]

31 May

Löwendenkmal (Lion Monument)

Just north of Löwenplatz is the famous Lion Monument, a huge figure of a dying lion hewn from the face of the rock ledge. Designed by Thorwaldsen in 1820, the monument commemorates the death of 26 officers and more than 700 troops of the Swiss Guards. These mercenary soldiers were killed in Paris while protecting […]

31 May

Spreuerbrücke

Surprising as it may be to have one covered bridge that has survived for several centuries, Lucerne has two. The second covered wooden bridge, the Spreuerbrücke, was built in 1406, and inside, on triangular panels under the bridge’s rafters, are 45 paintings of the Dance of Death, known in German as the Totentanz. Painted between […]

31 May

Ride the Cog Railway up Mount Rigi

One of the signature experiences in Switzerland is to ride the cog railway from the shores of Lake Lucerne to an elevation of 1,798 meters on Mt Rigi. This is Europe’s first cog railway, and you can ride in restored cars dating back as far as the railway’s beginning. Some of the steam engines date […]

31 May

Old Town

The Old Town of Lucerne, on the right bank of the Reuss, still preserves many old burghers’ houses and little squares with fountains. Some of the timber-framed buildings bordering the stone streets are painted in bright colors, giving the Altstadt a fairy-tale atmosphere. At the Kornmarkt is the Altes Rathaus, the Old Town Hall, built in […]