Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Lovely Lucerne and the giant: Mount Titlis

One of Lucerne's two famous wooden bridge & the water tower.

Along sections of the bridge, there were paintings of historic scenes...pretty cool stuff!

There was this loud commotion on the streets in the historic heart of the city.  We think those two men were caught shoplifting, but we're not sure.....

A lot of buildings had these cool paintings on them.

St. Leodegar im Hof...classic Swiss church.

The famous Lion Monument....
"The Lion lies in his lair in the perpendicular face of a low cliff — for he is carved from the living rock of the cliff. His size is colossal, his attitude is noble. His head is bowed, the broken spear is sticking in his shoulder, his protecting paw rests upon the lilies of France. Vines hang down the cliff and wave in the wind, and a clear stream trickles from above and empties into a pond at the base, and in the smooth surface of the pond the lion is mirrored, among the water-lilies.

Around about are green trees and grass. The place is a sheltered, reposeful woodland nook, remote from noise and stir and confusion — and all this is fitting, for lions do die in such places, and not on granite pedestals in public squares fenced with fancy iron railings. The Lion of Lucerne would be impressive anywhere, but nowhere so impressive as where he is."

— Mark Twain, A Tramp Abroad, 1880


Interior of Culture and Congress Center, design by Jean Nouvel....
The building was a beautiful combination of red cherry, green marbled floors, and a celebration of steel....unfortunately, we could not sneak our way into its world-class concert hall.
View from the open terrace in the Cultural and Congress Center.


10,000 feet above sea level: the Alps from Mount Titlis

The snow and wind picked up in a fury...the world turned white.

Along the glacier walk, there was a swaying suspension bridge.




Traditional Swiss homes and steeple church outside; en-route to Lucerne from Endleberg. 

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