Rathaus (Town Hall), Lucerne

The Kornmarkt dates to 1356, and as the name suggests, it was the city grain market place until the 19th century. Grain was stored in the ground floor of the Town Hall, from 1438. The upper parts of the building were used as a Town Hall from 1447 onwards.

This Italian Renaissance style building is covered with an overhanging roof, typical style from the canton of Bern. Inside the Town Hall are valuable paintings, and if you wish to be married, then you can do so here!
The Clock Tower OR Zyt Tower, is one of Nine Towers of Lucerne. Dating back to 1386, it also has the oldest Clock [1535] in the city, but it chimes one minute before the other City clock's!
The Tower was once used as a watch and observation tower.
The open arcades facing the River Reuss are now used as a weekly marketplace.
On Saturday's, the weekly market is held, and during the week, festival's and flea market's are held here.
The tower is a good vantage to watch the Tuesday and Saturday market's, or to just take in the view.

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The Rathausturm existed already 100 years before the old townhall was built. It was built in 1505 as a part of the fortifications of the townwall and in 1619 the 4 cute bay-windwos were added on top of the tower. Not far from the Rathausturm you may still see a large part of the medieval townwall still existing with several other watch-towers. You may even walk along the wall at the same corridors that were used in order to defend the medieval town of Luzern / Lucerne.

This is a backside view of the Town Hall with a better view of its beautiful tower. Inside the Town Hall is the Kornschütte hall, an earlier trading goods store, which is now used as a concert and exhibition locale.

Overlooking the riverside market area of Unter der Egg is the huge Rathaus (Town Hall), built between 1602 and 1606 in Italian Renaissance style but crowned with an oddly incongruous Emmentaler-style roof. The market atmosphere survives today, with stalls selling vegetables, fish and flowers beneath the arcades along Unter der Egg doing a roaring trade every Tuesday and Saturday morning. Kornmarktgasse runs west to the atmospheric frescoed Weinmarkt, where Passion Plays were staged in the late Middle Ages.

This beautiful building is Lucerne's Town Hall (Altes Rathaus),it was built in 1,602 in Reinassance style.It is located in the riverside and this picture was taken from the Chapel Bridge.

A good idea if you are walking by this part of old town,may be go upstairs to Town Hall Tower.

Another nice place to visit on the area is PICASSO MUSEUM,located next to the town hall.Also walking for this part of the city you'll find some nice hotels on the riverside with very nice views of the old town and riverside.

In this picture you can see a view of Town Hall's Tower.You can go upstairs and then see a beautiful view of the whole city.I didn't had the chance and time to do it,but some members of my group were climbing up for a while and then told me the nice views from above!.

As you can see on my picture,the tower has also a beautiful clock,it is one of largest in Europe and our guide told us that is largest than Big Ben in London,but I'm not very sure about that!..

Built between 1602 and 1606 by Anton Isenmann in Italian Renaissance style and covered with a Bern farmhouse roof for weather purposes. The open arcades facing the Reuss still serve today as a weekly marketplace. The Kornschutte Hall above an earlier trading goods store, is used today as a concert and exhibition hall.

On the photo, the Rathaus is the first building on the left.

The old Lucerne Town Hall stood on the Fischmarkt on the River Reuss. The very first Town Hall was on the Kornmarkt and was originally a staple-house. The city authorities built it in 1370. Then in 1505, part of the building was built up into a watch tower. Except for the tower, the whole building was rebuilt between 1602 and 1606.

Its a wonderful Renaissance building with its mighty hip-roof, it has wood-panelled halls, stoves and a pulpit which was built into the tower in 1485. The Town Hall is today the seat of the Greater Town Council.

Built between 1602 and 1606 by Anton Isenmann in the Italian Renaissance style and covered with an overhanging roof as is typical for Bern. The open arcades facing the Reuss are still used today as a weekly marketplace. Above the arcades is the Kornschütte hall, an earlier trading goods store, which is now used as a concert and exhibition locale.

The Town Hall was built between 1602 and 1606 by Anton Isenmann in the Italian Renaissance style and covered with an overhanging roof as is typical for Bern. The open arcades facing the Reuss are still used today as a weekly marketplace. Above the arcades is the Kornschütte hall, an earlier trading goods store, which is now used as a concert and exhibition locale.