Lucerne
Lucerne is a beautiful small city which sits on the shores of Lake Lucerne in the heartland of Switzerland. Lucerne is a popular destination for the city itself and the accessible outings around the lake and local Alps that it offers.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kapellbrücke and Swissporarena.
Kapellbrücke
The Kapellbrücke is a covered wooden footbridge spanning the river Reuss diagonally in the city of Lucerne in central Switzerland. Named after the nearby St.
Swissporarena
Stadium
Photo: Chrisaliv, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Swissporarena is a multi-use stadium in Lucerne, Switzerland, completed in 2011. It is used mostly for football matches and hosts the home matches of FC Luzern of the Swiss Super League.
Swiss Museum of Transport
Museum
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Swiss Museum of Transport or Verkehrshaus der Schweiz in Lucerne opened in July 1959 and exhibits all forms of transport including trains, automobiles, ships and aircraft as well as communication technology.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kriens and Emmen.
Kriens
Town
Photo: Tilman-AB, Public domain.
Kriens is a city and a municipality in the district of Lucerne in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland. The municipality lies at the foot of the mountain Pilatus, and is a western suburb of Lucerne. Kriens is situated 3½ km southwest of Lucerne.
Emmen
Town
Photo: Gürkan Sengün, Public domain.
Emmen is a village and municipality in the district of Hochdorf in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland. The municipality Emmen consists of the village Emmen, the town Emmenbrücke, and several hamlets. Emmen is situated 4½ km northwest of Lucerne.
Lucerne
- Type: Locality with 82,300 residents
- Also known as: “Luzern”
- Location: Lucerne District, Canton of Lucerne, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
47.0471° or 47° 2′ 50″ northLongitude
8.3252° or 8° 19′ 31″ eastPopulation
82,300Elevation
431 metres (1,414 feet)Open location code
8FVC28WG+V3GeoNames ID
7286409
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Lucerne” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Lucerni”
- Arabic: “لوسرن”
- Basque: “Luzerna”
- Belarusian: “Горад Люцэрн”
- Bosnian: “Lucern”
- Bulgarian: “Люцерн”
- Catalan: “Lucerna”
- Chinese: “卢塞恩”
- Czech: “Lucern”
- Esperanto: “Lucerno”
- French: “Lucerne”
- Galician: “Lucerna”
- Georgian: “ლუცერნი”
- Greek: “Λουκέρνη”
- Hebrew: “לוצרן”
- Italian: “Lucerna”
- Japanese: “ルツェルン”
- Kazakh: “Люцерн”
- Korean: “루체른”
- Latin: “Lucerna”
- Latvian: “Lucerna”
- Lithuanian: “Liucerna”
- Lombard: “Lüzerna”
- Ossetian: “Люцерн”
- Persian: “لوسرن”
- Piemontese: “Lucerna”
- Polish: “Lucerna”
- Portuguese: “Lucerna”
- Romanian: “Lucerna”
- Romansh: “Lucerna”
- Russian: “Люцерн”
- Scots: “Lucerne”
- Serbian: “Луцерн”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lucerne”
- Sicilian: “Lucerna”
- Spanish: “Lucerna”
- Tibetan: “ལུ་ཛེར་ན།”
- Ukrainian: “Люцерн”
- Venetian: “Łuxerna”
- Waray (Philippines): “Lucerne”
- Welsh: “Lucerne”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Lucerne”. Photo: Ikiwaner, CC BY-SA 3.0.