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Lucerne Landmarks and Cultural Walk

Lucerne Landmarks and Cultural Walk

Lucerne · Switzerland

14 stops
  • Audio guide
  • 4 languages
  • Offline

Walk through Lucerne to see a monument, museums, a lakeside park, churches, bridges, a square, a tower, and a city gate. The route brings together cultural stops and distinctive public places, from the Lion Monument and Gletschergarten Luzern to the museums and waterfront. It is worth taking for the variety of places encountered in one purposeful walk through the city.

The walk

Stops 1–6 of 14. The rest are in the app.

  1. Lion Monument

    Lion Monument

    A dying lion carved into a cliff remembers the Swiss Guards killed at the Tuileries in 1792.

  2. Glacier Garden

    Glacier Garden

    A cellar excavation became a museum of ice, deep time, maps, plants, and mirrors.

  3. Lake Promenade

    Lake Promenade

    Luzerner Seepromenade is a park and tourism attraction in Lucerne, Switzerland.

  4. 8 more stops on this walk, in the app
  5. Kunstmuseum Luzern

    Kunstmuseum Luzern

    A museum born in 1932, now suspended above Lucerne with Swiss art and an international exhibition history.

  6. Rosengart Collection

    Rosengart Collection

    A former Swiss National Bank now holding major collections of Klee and Picasso.

  7. Water Tower

    Water Tower

    A leaning medieval defense tower that became Lucerne’s prison, treasury, archive, and bird colony.

  8. Stop 7

  9. Stop 8

  10. Stop 9

  11. 8 more stops in the app

Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places

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How a walk works

8 more stops in the app

This page shows the first 6 of 14 stops. The rest of the walk, and the guide who narrates it, are in the app.

  1. Pick a walk

    Every stop is a real place, already in walking order.

  2. Pocket your phone

    Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.

  3. Listen as you arrive

    On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.

See the whole walk in the app

Free to install · Every city’s featured walk is free, start to finish.

  • A guide who talks

    Narration at every stop, starting on its own as you arrive — phone in your pocket.

  • The route, followed

    A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.

  • In four languages

    English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.

  • Or build your own

    Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.

  • The unglamorous things

    Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.

  • No signal needed

    Download a walk before you go and it works under a souk roof or on a plane.

  • Picks up where you left off

    Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.