Chapter 374: Places of Interest and Food
Located on the west side of the Cabell Bridge is another wooden covered bridge. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 Built in 1408 and only 80 meters long, the INFO is not a straight bridge, like the Cabell Bridge, but with only a small turn and a small chapel in the middle of the bridge.
At the top of the bridge is also a 67 wood-paneled painting "Dance of Death", painted by Caspar Megelinger in 1626, which depicts the Black Death epidemic in Europe at that time, where rich and poor were equal in the face of death. It got its name because the millers used to pour their chaff into the river here.
The dying Lucerne lion, one of the most famous statues in the world, was carved into a natural rock by a Danish sculptor in 1821.
The lion, 10 meters long and more than 3 meters high, fell to the ground in agony, with a broken spear stuck in his shoulder and a shield with the Swiss coat of arms next to it. The statue commemorates the 786 Swiss mercenaries who died on August 10, 1792 to protect the Louis XVI family in the Tuileries in Paris.
At that time, Switzerland was a poor and backward country, and men were forced to work as mercenaries in European countries in order to make ends meet. After this incident, Switzerland stopped exporting mercenaries, leaving only the Guards serving the Catholic Church in the Vatican.
Thanks to its famous loyalty, this Swiss Guard of the Holy See has served to this day.
Later, the American writer Mark Twain came to Lucerne and hailed the "dying Lucerne lion" as "the most tragic and touching statue in the world".
The Jesuitenkirche was the first large baroque church in Switzerland with a lavishly decorated interior. It was built in 1666 by Father Christoph Vogler for the Society of Jesus (one of the Catholic congregations).
The decoration of the dome was completed in the mid-18th century.
The Hofkirche with its two beautiful minarets, located on the north side of Lake Lucerne, is the most important church in Lucerne.
Construction began in 735 AD and was a Romanesque building, which was rebuilt to Gothic in the 14th century, badly damaged in a fire in the 17th century, and subsequently rebuilt to the Renaissance.
The interior of the church is solemn, and the seats of worship are decorated with vivid and delicate carvings. The church's organ, made in 1640 with a total of 4,950 organ pipes, is still used today at the summer festival in Lucerne.
The Franciscan Church, built in the second half of the 13th century, is a Gothic building. Compared to other churches in Switzerland built in the middle of the Renaissance and the Baroque, it has the most ornate pulpit.
The great German musician Richard Wagner lived in Lucerne from 1866 to 1872, the best years of his life. The residence is a lakeside villa in Tribschen, outside Lucerne, now a museum.
It was here that Wagner completed masterpieces such as The Poet of Nuremberg and The Twilight of the Gods, and married Liszt's daughter Cosima, where Wagner's only son was born.
The museum houses Wagner's personal belongings and musical manuscripts during his stay in Lucerne, letters from Wagner and his friends, including famous figures such as Nietzsche and King Ludwig II of Bavaria, Wagner's bedroom, and an exhibition of paintings from Wagner's travels in Switzerland.
There are also many treasures of ancient musical instruments from Europe, Africa, and Asia, most of which were collected by the museum later and have nothing to do with Wagner. The cottage is located in a villa area by the lake with open grass and a very beautiful view.
The Rosengart family's collection of classic modernist painters such as Picasso and Paul Klee is featured, and also houses works by world-famous artists of the 19th and 20th centuries such as Monet, Cezanne, Vuillard, Bonnard, Matisse, Braque, Leger, Miro, Chagal, Kandinsky, and many more.
The collection of the Picasso Museum, which was originally located in a 17th-century mansion next to the Old Town Hall, also owned by the Rosengart family, has also been moved here. This part of the collection is mainly works and manuscripts of Picasso's close friend and Picasso during the last 20 years of his life, most of which were bequeathed by Picasso.
There are also more than 200 photographs by David Douglas Duncan, from Picasso's work and daily life, and from vacations with the Rosengart family.
Built in 1386, the walls of the Seg Wall, together with the original timber-framed galloped walls on the Reuss River and the Lake of the Four Forest States, enclosed the entire old city and formed a city wall on land and water. At present, the water city wall leaves the Capel Bridge and the Valley Bran Bridge, and the land city wall is now only a section of more than 900 meters that is basically well preserved.
The walls are topped by 9 towers, 3 of which are open to the public, allowing people to climb the walls and look out over the old city. On the Zyt Tower, there is the oldest city clock, built by Hans Luter in 1535, which strikes one minute earlier than all other city bells at every hour.
There are medieval buildings and alleys.
The old municipal building was built between 1602 and 1606 in the Italian style and is a classical and solemn building. There are many squares in the old town. Capel Square, with St. Peter's Church on the side and a Gothic fountain in the middle of the square, is the venue for the opening ceremony of the famous Lucerne Carnival.
Grain market, adjacent to the old municipal building. Wine market, surrounded by frescoes of houses, and a Gothic fountain in the center of the square. Kagoer Square is also surrounded by houses painted with murals. There is also Place de la Millen, where there are many ancient buildings.
The streets are full of distinctive masks, and the old narrow streets and squares are full of shops, Renaissance and Baroque buildings and fountains. The squares are all paved with cobblestones, herringbone huts, and the walls are painted with colorful flowers and plants, fresh and beautiful.
Walking along the river and the lake, you can see a wooden covered bridge that straddles the river - the Cabell Covered Bridge.
The Swiss Transport Museum is the largest and richest transport museum in Europe, with more than 7,000 artifacts and 150,000 important historical documents, including canoes from more than 3,000 years ago, medieval horse-drawn carriages, 19th-century steam locomotives and mountain trains, and 20th-century vintage cars
and airplanes, as well as futuristic spaceships, as many as more than 3,000 physical displays.
The exhibition systematically presents the development of road, rail and water transport, as well as the content of space transport. The exhibition focuses on interactive and fun, with interesting activities such as simulated fighter jets, train driving, car crash tests, boat races, car display stands, and more.
There is also an activity area for children, where you can learn about driving traffic rules and the construction of roads and railways through games. The Big Map of Switzerland may be the prototype of Google Maps.
There is also an IMAX theater, a planetarium and the Hans Erni Art Museum.
Glacier Park, where the remains of a Quaternary glacier were discovered in 1872 when workers were digging the ground. The glacial erosion of the strata, rocks, caves and grottoes show the ancient Swiss landscape.
There is also a glacier museum in the park, with real objects, models and drawings to let people know about the glacier. The park has gardens and watchtowers, the Swiss House, the Wonders of a Million Year exhibition and the Mirror Labyrinth of Elhanbra.
KKL Lucerne (Lucerne) Culture and Arts Centre, a beautiful modern building located on Lake Lucerne, is fully functional for performances, conferences, exhibitions and celebrations.
The building was designed by Jean Nouvel, an outstanding French architect, and cleverly brought the water of the lake into the hall. The large concert hall designed by Russel Johnson has 1,840 comfortable seats and excellent acoustics, which have been highly appreciated by the world's leading conductors, musicians and orchestras.
The Lucerne Festival takes place here every year.
Every August, Lucerne (Lucerne) becomes one of Switzerland's most attractive tourist destinations, one of the reasons for which the annual international music festival takes place.
From bookstores to grocery stores, the window displays are all music-themed. Portraits of Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Strauss, and others can be seen in flowers or various merchandise, and violins, cellos, pianos, flutes, and even sheet music have become bestsellers.
Over the course of several weeks, the concert halls of all sizes hold a variety of performances, and each one is packed. Even if you don't have the opportunity to go to a concert hall, it's not hard to see the musicians: from the station to the hotel, from the riverbank to the lakeside, it's not uncommon to meet some familiar faces, mostly music stars.
This encounter is also a kind of joy and edification. The baptism of the festival has made the people of Lucerne (Lucerne) love music, and people have become more or less confidant of this art.
At all times, it was the place where the world's food was usually eaten. With the arrival of tourists from all over the world, Lucerne will not only find traditional Swiss cuisine, but also international cuisine, including Mediterranean, Spanish, Asian and authentic Chinese cuisine.
Fondue is the national dish of Switzerland, and at the Fondue House in the Old Town you can enjoy a fondue feast with cheese, fried meat and chocolate.
The Wirtshaus Taube, whose symbol is a blue dove, is said to be the oldest restaurant in Lucerne (Lucerne). The restaurant serves a local Lucerne specialty: Chuegelipastetli (beef mushrooms in a puff pastry box, sometimes chestnuts added depending on the season), which is very easy to eat.
The Stadtkeller Swiss Folk Cabaret Restaurant serves traditional Swiss cuisine and presents traditional Swiss celebrations from April to October at noon and in the evening, including yodelling mountain singing, flag dancing and alphorn performances.
The Old Swiss House restaurant is located next to the Lion Monument and is full of antiques from the cutlery to the furnishings. The waiters are all in national costumes. The Swiss version of Wiener schnitzel cooked in front of the guests is one of the specialties here.
The Lunch Boat is a very special "restaurant".
Every day at 12 o'clock it departs from the pier to Weggis and Vitznau towns and back, and this is the only boat that has meals every day. This is a mobile restaurant that is especially on the water, and the fish meal is the specialty. If you dare not get on this boat, you can go to the boat restaurant docked on the shore.
Bachmann, a pastry shop from Lucerne, is a tribute to Lucerne for finding chocolates in the shape of a wooden bridge in the shape of a Capel bridge. The most popular among the locals is the shop's specialty, Chatzestreckerli Almond Chop.
Max Chocolatier is Lucerne's new high-end artisanal chocolatier, located in the west wing of the five-star Hotel Schweizerhof Luzern, next door to the Cartier boutique. Only the finest raw materials are selected, and locally produced ingredients are handmade according to the season.
The price is not cheap, it is a good gift and a reward for yourself.
Ye Chao lived in a five-star hotel, ate high-end handmade chocolate, held an almond chopstick, and walked to a mobile restaurant.