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Löwendenkmal (Lion Monument), Lucerne
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Löwendenkmal (Lion Monument): THE LION MONUMENT
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  • We arrived Lucerne after a nice lunch on the way from Munich to Geneva.We spent all the afternoon seeing the best places that this beautiful city has to offer.

    We started a very nice walking tour in Lucerne,seeing this place: The Lion Monument and also named the Sleeping Lion.Is a landmark of the city and it was built in 1,821 in honour to all Swiss Guards died on a battle in Paris,defending the French Royal family when Paris revolutionaries stormed the Tuleries Palace.

    These died Swiss Guards, were born in Lucerne and then the city decided to make this nice sculpture in the mountain's rock.Really the sculpture is impressive and very realist,you can see clearly all the pain that the lion are suffering on his face.

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    Löwendenkmal (Lion Monument): The Lion-monument / the Sleeping Lion
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  • Das Loewendenkmal / The Lion-monument was built in 1820 in order to memorize the 750 swiss soldiers that were sent to Paris in 1792 in order to fight against the troups of the French revolution. All of them lost their lives in the battles defending the Tuilleries.
    Mark Twain once said that this Sleeping Lion of Lucerne is the "sadest and most moving piece of rock in the world"
    this touching monument was made by the danish artist Bertel Thorvaldsen .

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  • Directions: The Lion-monument is not far from Hofkirche : When walking Schweizerhofquai from Schwanenplatz to Hofkirche, take Loewenstrasse to the left and walk to Loewenplatz. The monument is there in a park to the right, next to Gletschergarten !

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    Löwendenkmal (Lion Monument): Lion Monument
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  • The Swiss have a long tradition of supplying mercenaries to foreign governments. Because the Swiss have been politically neutral for centuries and have long enjoyed a reputation for honoring their agreements, a pope or emperor could be confident that his Swiss Guards wouldn't turn on him when the political winds shifted direction. The Swiss Guards' honor was put to the test in 1792, when--after trying to escape the French Revolution--King Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, and their children were hauled back to the Tuileries Palace in Paris. A mob of working-class Parisians stormed the palace in search of aristocratic blood. More than 700 Swiss officers and soldiers died while defending the palace, without knowing that their royal employers--like Elvis--had left the building. In the early 1800s, the Danish artist Bertel Thorvaldsen was hired to sculpt a monument to the fallen Swiss Guards. The sculpture was carved in a sandstone cliff above the city center, near Lucerne's Glacier Garden and the Panorama, and it has attracted countless visitors since its dedication in 1821.

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  • Directions: From the waterfront, head up the Alpenstrasse or the Lõwenstrasse to the Löwenplatz. On the uphill side of the square, follow the Denkmalstrasse another block or so to the monument

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    Löwendenkmal (Lion Monument): Lion Monument
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  • This is one of the most amazing pieces of art in the world. Carved out of the rock face in memory of the Swiss guard killed in the line of duty - sort of - protecting France's Louis XIV.

    The guard were killed to a man after being ordered to drop their pikes as Louis thought that 'his people' loved him and wouldn't do any damage - Doh!!

    The Lion's pain is there for all to see and this is the most amazing thing about this monument - the Lion looks like is really in pain, close to death with a broken pike in its side (symbolising the pikes of the Swiss Guard killed with their own pikes).

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    Löwendenkmal (Lion Monument): The Dying Lion of Lucerne
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  • The Dying Lion of Lucerne Monumen is surely one of the world's most famous monuments. Hewn out of natural rock in 1812 in memory of the heroic death of the Swiss guards at the Tuileries in 1792. I always find this monument very powerful and quite emotive personally - this is how I picture Aslan in CS Lewis's book 'The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe' when he dies.


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    Löwendenkmal (Lion Monument): Löwendenkmal (Lion Monument)
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  • Löwendenkmal (Lion Monument) The Swiss officers and 760 guards officers who died defending Louis XVI of France at the Tuileries in Paris in 1792 are commemorated here. Designed by Danish sculptor Berthel of Konstanz, the 19th century wonder is a simple, stirring image of a dying lion. The Latin inscription translates: 'To the bravery and fidelity of the Swiss'.

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  • Address: Denkmalstrasse

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    Löwendenkmal (Lion Monument): Hear the Lion cry!
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  • The Lion Monument is an important monument in the city. The sleeping Lion, another named for it, was built in 1821 in honour to all Swiss Guards who had died in a battle in Paris. They were defending the French Royal family against the Paris revolutionaries in the Tuleries Palace. Being born in Lucerne and then the city decided to make this nice sculpture in the mountain's rock to remember these soldiers. You can see the pain on the lion's face distinctively.


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    Löwendenkmal (Lion Monument): loewendenkmal
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  • The Loewendenkmal is the lion's monument: to be more precise it's the dying lion. When the writer Mark Twain saw it, while doing his grand tour of Europe, he described it as "the saddest and most poignant piece of rock in the world." This monument is carved into a large sandstone cliff and its dedicated to the Swiss Guards who died in the Tuileries of Paris in 1792 trying to save the life and honor of Marie Antoinette.

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  • Address: loewenstrasse
  • Directions: not far from loewenplatz, and right by the glaciers' garden

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    Löwendenkmal (Lion Monument): Dying Lion
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  • This sculpture hewn out of a mountainside (much like Stone Mountain, Georgia) near Lucerne commemorates the slaughter of the Swiss guard which defended Marie Antoinette before the popular uprising which ended all French royalty.

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    Löwendenkmal (Lion Monument): The Lion Memorial
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  • The 'Dying Lion of Lucerne' is one of the world's most famous monuments. In 1812 it was hewn out of natural rock in memory of the heroic death of the Swiss guards at the Tuileries in 1792.

    Mark Twain described the Lion of Lucerne as 'the saddest and most moving piece of rock in the world'.

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  • Address: Denkmalstrasse
  • Directions: From the waterfront, head up the Alpenstrasse or the Lõwenstrasse to the Löwenplatz. On the uphill side of the square, follow the Denkmalstrasse another block or so to the monument

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