Explore Lucerne

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 Rosengart Collection is an art museum in Lucerne, opened in 2002 in a neoclassical building of 1922 that served as a branch of the Swiss National Bank until 1999. It shows the collection of the art dealer Siegfried Rosengart and his daughter Angela, with large groups of works by Paul Klee and Pablo Picasso alongside paintings by Cézanne, Monet and Seurat.

The Bourbaki Panorama is a circular painting by Edouard Castres from 1881, shown in a rotunda on Löwenplatz in Lucerne since 1889. About 112 metres long, it depicts General Bourbaki's French Eastern Army entering Switzerland at Les Verrières in 1871, at the end of the Franco-Prussian War, with three-dimensional figures and objects placed in front of the canvas.

The Swiss Museum of Transport is a museum on the shore of Lake Lucerne that opened in 1959. Its halls cover rail, road, water, aviation and space travel, tourism, energy and communication, with locomotives, aircraft and Auguste Piccard's submarine Mésoscaphe; the site also has a planetarium, a large-format cinema and the Hans Erni Museum.