Bridges of Lucerne
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General Travel Information

Tourist Board Lucerne
Click "Welcome" to visit the English version of the city's official tourism site.

Events/Festivals

Lucerne Festival
Learn about the Easter Festival Lucerne, International Festival of Music Lucerne, and Lucerne Piano Festival.

Museums

Swiss Transportation Museum switzerlandforvisitors.com
Switzerland's largest museum complex has trains, planes, automobiles, boats, a planetarium, a 360° panoramic movie tour of Switzerland, and an IMAX theater in an attractive lakeside setting.

Historisches Museum Luzern
Visit once for the general displays, then return for special exhibits that range from Samichlaus (Santa Claus) to zithers.

Sights

Lucerne's Lion Monument switzerlandforvisitors.com
Before Louis XVI lost his head, 726 Swiss Guards lost their lives at his expense.

Pilatus Kulm switzerlandforvisitors.com
Enjoy a spectacular mountain excursion by cable car and the world's steepest cogwheel railway.

Glacier Garden
Lucerne's Gletschergarten has Ice Age potholes, a relief model of Central Switzerland, an "Old Lucerne" section with antique furniture, and other attractions.

Transportation

Lake Lucerne by steamer switzerlandforvisitors.com
An illustrated article about lake cruises and boat-train itineraries around the Vierwaldstättersee or "Lake of the Four Forest Cantons," a.k.a. Lake Lucerne.

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