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Historic monument
Kapellbrücke
Covered wooden bridge over the river Reuss, built around 1365, with 17th-century paintings on the ceiling and the octagonal Wasserturm tower beside it.
Lucerna · Switzerland Capital
Lucerna
In the destination Lucerna and the mountains.
In the photo: Kapellbrücke and River Reuss, Lucerne
Illustrative images. The pictures in this guide are illustrations based on the real place, not photographs, and may differ from it.
The city
What to expect from Lucerna.
Capital of the canton of Lucerne, at the point where the river Reuss leaves the Lake of the Four Cantons. It has the Kapellbrücke and the Spreuerbrücke, covered wooden bridges, the Altstadt with painted facades, the Museggmauer wall, the Löwendenkmal, the KKL by Jean Nouvel and the Swiss Museum of Transport. It is the base for ascending Pilatus, Rigi, Stanserhorn and Bürgenstock.
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The local experience
What to see in Lucerna
Historic center
Altstadt Luzern
The medieval centre on the right bank of the Reuss, with the Kornmarkt and the old Rathaus, the Weinmarkt and its 1481 fountain, the Hirschenplatz and streets of painted façades.
Historic monument
Spreuerbrücke
Lucerne’s second covered bridge, 81 m long, with the Totentanz (Dance of Death) painting series made in the 17th century by Kaspar Meglinger and a small chapel in the middle.
Fortification
Museggmauer
Section of Lucerne's old city wall, about 870 m long with nine towers, four of them open from April to October, offering views over the roofs, the lake and the Alps.
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Monument
Löwendenkmal
Wounded lion carved in 1820 and 1821 into a rock wall, 10 m long, in memory of the Swiss Guards killed at the Palácio das Tulherias in Paris in 1792.
Museum
Gletschergarten Luzern
Stone kettles carved by a glacier about 20,000 years ago, discovered in 1872, with a museum, a mirror maze, rock galleries and an observation tower.
Museum
Bourbaki Panorama
A 112 m circular painting by Édouard Castres from 1881, showing the arrival in Suíça of General Bourbaki's French army in 1871, in a round building near the Leão.
Church
Jesuitenkirche
Jesuit church built from 1666 to 1677 on the left bank of the Reuss, the first large Baroque church in Suíça, with a white and gold interior and two domed towers.
Church
Hofkirche St. Leodegar
Church of São Leodegário, rebuilt from 1633 to 1639 in Renaissance style after a fire, with medieval towers of 69 m, an arcaded cemetery and a large 17th‑century organ.
Architecture
KKL Luzern
Culture and congress center designed by Jean Nouvel, on the lakeside, with a 45 m cantilevered roof, a concert hall with acoustics by Russell Johnson and the Kunstmuseum Luzern.
Museum
Verkehrshaus der Schweiz
Museu Suíço dos Transportes, opened in 1959 on the lakefront, with trains, cars, airplanes, boats and cable cars, a planetarium, a large-screen cinema and an exhibition about chocolate.
Museum
Sammlung Rosengart
Modern art museum in a former 1922 bank, with around 180 works by Picasso and 125 by Paul Klee, as well as Monet, Pissarro, Seurat and others, gathered by Siegfried and Angela Rosengart.
Lake and boat trip
Vierwaldstättersee
The Lake of the Four Cantons, with indented shores among mountains, is navigated by SGV boats, including five paddle steamers built between 1901 and 1928.
Mountain
Pilatus
Mountain south of Lucerna, with a cogwheel railway dating from 1889 and gradients up to 48%, the Dragon Ride cable car and a gondola to Kriens; at the top, viewpoints and trails above 2,000 m.
Mountain
Rigi
Massif between the lakes of Lucerne, Zug and Lauerz, with its summit at Rigi Kulm, 1,797 m, served by the first mountain railway in Europe, opened in 1871.
Mountain
Stanserhorn
Mountain of 1,898 m above Stans, with a wooden-wagon funicular from 1893 and the CabriO cable car, two-storey with an open top, that reaches the summit where a rotating restaurant is located.
Observation deck
Bürgenstock e Hammetschwand-Lift
Promontory over the lake, reached by boat and an 1888 funicular, with the Felsenweg path on the slope and the Hammetschwand elevator, which rises 153 m outdoors to 1,132 m.
Panoramic train
Luzern–Interlaken Express
Zentralbahn train that links Lucerne to Interlaken in about 1 hour 50 minutes, climbing the Brünig Pass at 1,008 m and passing Lakes Sarnen, Lungern and Brienz.