A city of bridges

Surrounded by snow-capped mountains just out of frame, Lucerne lies in the Swiss-German speaking bit of central Switzerland and is split into two parts, which are linked by a series of bridges. The most famous of these is the Kapellbrücke (Chapel Bridge), a covered wooden footbridge which you can see going diagonally across the Reuss river in our homepage image. The building next to it, rising from the water, is a medieval water tower which has been variously used as a prison, torture chamber, local archive and treasury.
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