Explore Lucerne

The Chapel Bridge is a covered wooden footbridge that crosses the Reuss diagonally in Lucerne, built around 1365 as part of the town's fortifications and named after St. Peter's Chapel. About 200 metres long, it passes the stone Water Tower; triangular 17th-century paintings hang under its roof, many of them lost in a fire in 1993, after which the bridge was rebuilt.

The Jesuit Church of St. Francis Xavier stands on the left bank of the Reuss in Lucerne and was the first large Baroque church built in Switzerland north of the Alps. Construction began in 1667 and the church was consecrated in 1677, while its two onion-domed towers were completed only in 1893; a chapel inside keeps vestments of Brother Klaus.

The Musegg Wall is an 870-metre stretch of Lucerne's medieval fortifications along the Musegg hill north of the old town, built from around 1370 into the 15th century, with nine towers. Visitors walk along part of the wall and climb the Männli, Zyt, Wacht and Schirmer towers; the Zytturm clock, built in 1535, strikes a minute before the other clocks of the town.

The Spreuer Bridge is a covered wooden footbridge across the Reuss in Lucerne, completed in 1408 and largely rebuilt after a flood in 1566. Its gables hold 45 of the original 67 painted panels of a Dance of Death, made in 1626–1632 under the painter Kaspar Meglinger, and a small chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary stands on the bridge.

The Church of St. Leodegar, known as the Hofkirche, is the Catholic parish and collegiate church that stands above the lakeshore in Lucerne, with twin pointed towers. It was built in 1633–1639 partly on the foundations of a Romanesque basilica that burned in 1633, and it is one of the few large churches erected north of the Alps during the Thirty Years' War.

The Lion Monument is a rock relief of a dying lion, carved in 1820–21 by Lukas Ahorn into a cliff face after a design by Bertel Thorvaldsen. It commemorates the Swiss Guards killed in 1792 when revolutionaries stormed the Tuileries Palace in Paris; a Latin inscription runs above the lion and a small pond lies below the cliff.