Lucerne

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Lucerne
Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Lucerne (German: Luzern) is a city in Central Switzerland with a population of 60,274 (31 December 2003), capital of the canton of Lucerne.
The city is located on the borders of Lake Lucerne (Vierwaldstättersee) with a famous wooden bridge and within sight of Mount Pilatus and the Rigi.

Wasserturm - the town's landmarkThere is apparently no record of the city's founding, but it is mentioned in 840 named "Luciaria", the name originating from a monastery of St Leodegar founded around 730.
The opening of the St Gotthard Pass route in the 13th century made Lucerne into an important trading town.
Acquired by the Hapsburgs in 1291, it joined the Swiss Confederation in 1332.

Lucerne was capital of the Helvetian Republic in 1798.

Since the city straddles the Reuss River where it drains the lake, it has a number of bridges.
The most famous is the Chapel Bridge (Kapellbrücke), a 204 m (670 ft) long wooden bridge originally built in 1333, although much of it had to be replaced after a 1993 fire. Partway across, the bridge runs by the octagonal Water Tower (Wasserturm), a fortification from the 13th century.
The Swiss Transport Museum is an impressively large and comprehensive museum exhibiting all forms of transportation, including locomotives, automobiles, ships, and aircraft.
The Culture and Convention Center Lucerne besides the lake in the center of the city was built by Jean Nouvel.
The center has one of the worlds leading concert halls (Accustic: Russel Johnson).
Every year in late summertime the very famous Lucerne Festival (classic music) takes place.

External links
Lucerne city homepage (http://www.luzern.ch)
Luzern Tourismus AG - tourist office (http://www.luzern.org/)

This information was updated & correct in December 2004. E. & O.E.


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We, Hui Chin and I arrived in Paris early Friday morning to apply for our Mali Visa.
We went to to the Embassy.
Wrong place, have to go the Consulate.
At the Consulate we were told wrong day for applications, (Only on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday (9am-12 pm.)

We had two days to spare and a two months Eurail Pass.
Off to Lucern we hurried to try out the world's longest cograil railway up to Mount Pilatus.
Well, after arriving in Lucern, we bought a ticket to Mt. Pilatus.
That ticket entitled us to a boat trip from Lucern to Alpnachstad, there we caught the longest and highest cograil train in the World to Pilatus Kulm, took time out for a good, breathtaking look, caught an arial tramway or gondola down to Frakmuntegg, where we had another breathtaking look at the sorrounding Swiss Alps, and from Frakmuntegg we caught a panoramic gondola down to Kriens, a suburb of Lucerne.

Off course you can do the round anticlockwise too.

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