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| The Lion of Lucerne |
On day two, we woke up early and explored Luzern before catching an afternoon train over to Feldkirch, Austria. On our way to drop our bags at the train station, we stopped by the Lion of Lucerne, a monument to the Swiss Guards who were massacred in 1792 in the French Revolution. Mark Twain remarked in 1880 that the monument was "the most mournful and moving piece of stone in the world." The monument is enormous, at around 18 feet tall and 30 feet long.
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| Church of St. Leodegar |
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After that, we went by the church of St. Leodegar. The church was enormous, covering roughly a whole city block. Inside, there were gorgeous scenes wrought in gold, a grand pulpit, and intricate works carved in wood. Outside, the entire church was surrounded by burial plots of the priests and nuns that had served at the church, some dating back to the 1600s. Because they didn't really have a lot of space, some of these plots are buried four deep. It's an interesting solution to a space problem, and one that seems to work still, since we saw grave markings from the 2000s there.
After wandering around the city center for a while, we
eventually found our way to the ramparts, the wall that surrounded the
old city. They had a few of the towers and a section of the wall open
to the public, and the view of the city from the top was amazing.
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| The view from the ramparts |
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As usual, the rest of the photos in this album are available
here. And I will post the rest of the trip soon, I just need a few minutes to get my computer to stop acting up...
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