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Lucerne Old Town Painted Facades

Lucerne Old Town Painted Facades

Lucerne · Switzerland

8 stops
  • Audio guide
  • 4 languages
  • Offline

Walk through Lucerne’s Old Town looking closely at painted facades, from broad decorative compositions to smaller details around windows, doors and upper floors. At the Museggmauer and Wachtturm, notice how the masonry and elevated setting frame the colourful building fronts below. The squares and fountain then bring you close to the facades, making their patterns, colours and relationship to public space easier to compare. Finish at the Grand Tour of Switzerland - Photo Spot Lucerne with the details you have noticed in mind and choose a framed view of the Old Town.

The walk

Stops 1–6 of 8. The rest are in the app.

  1. Musegg Wall

    Musegg Wall

    Museggmauer is a historic city gate in Lucerne, Switzerland.

  2. Wachtturm

    Wachtturm

    Wachtturm is a tourism attraction in Lucerne, Switzerland.

  3. Panorama Terrace

    Panorama Terrace

    Panorama Terrace is an attraction in Lucerne, Switzerland.

  4. 2 more stops on this walk, in the app
  5. Sternenplatz

    Sternenplatz

    Sternenplatz is an attraction in Lucerne, Switzerland.

  6. Jesuitenplatz

    Jesuitenplatz

    Jesuitenplatz is an attraction in Lucerne, Switzerland.

  7. Weinmarktbrunnen

    Weinmarktbrunnen

    Weinmarktbrunnen is a fountain and tourist attraction in Lucerne, Switzerland.

  8. Stop 7

  9. Stop 8

  10. 2 more stops in the app

Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places

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How a walk works

2 more stops in the app

This page shows the first 6 of 8 stops. The rest of the walk, and the guide who narrates it, are in the app.

  1. Pick a walk

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  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.

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  • A guide who talks

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

  • The route, followed

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  • In four languages

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

  • Or build your own

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  • The unglamorous things

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

  • No signal needed

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  • Picks up where you left off

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