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EAT
Luz
A perfect pit-stop, this Admiring a rich selection of Picasso’s work
EXPERIENCE Central Switzerland and Ticino delicious local Lucerne e " by research to date from the
tiny coffee joint serves
delicious snacks and
fabulous lake views.
⌂ Landungsbrücke 1
∑ luzseebistro.ch
in the private Rosengart Collection
Taube
Ice Age. The garden was made
The go-to place for
Rosengart Collection
to conserve this geological fea-
dishes, cooked just like
ture, which is protected by a
⌂ Pilatusstrasse 10
your grandmother
tent-roof that allows visitors to
# Apr–Oct: 10am–6pm
would do.
view the rock from the sides.
daily; Nov–Mar: 11am–5pm
⌂ Burgerstrasse 3
daily ∑ rosengart.ch
an exhibition on the geological
∑ taube-luzern.ch
The Rosengart Collection
processes involved in creating
(Sammlung Rosengart) is a
private collection of over 300 The site includes a museum,
modernist paintings that was
formed over several decades
by the art dealers Siegfried
Rosengart and his daughter,
w "\ Angela. As well as 125 works
Bourbaki Panorama by Paul Klee, the museum also
has a fabulous collection of
⌂ Löwenplatz 11 # Apr–
Oct: 9am–6pm daily; Nov– watercolours and sculptures
Mar: 10am–5pm daily by Pablo Picasso, many of
them from the former Picasso
∑ bourbakipanorama.ch
Museum. The collection also
One of the world’s few includes Impressionist paint-
surviving panoramas, this ings, with canvases by Cézanne
giant circular mural depicts and Monet, as well as art
the march of the French works by Chagall, Matisse
army through Switzerland and Kandinsky.
under General Bourbaki,
during the Franco-Prussian
War (1870–71). In a stone
building now housed in a r "
glass shell, it is 112 m (370 ft) Gletschergarten
long and 10 m (33 ft) high, ⌂ Denkmalstrasse 4
and was painted by Edouard # Apr–Oct: 9am–6pm daily;
Castres. Sound effects, a Nov–Mar: 10am–5pm daily
spoken narrative (in several ∑ gletschergarten.ch
languages) and a smartphone
app help bring the characters This attractive garden is an
depicted to life and turn this oasis of tranquillity, as well
early form of storytelling into as being the setting for a
an incredibly immersive expe- fascinating natural phe-
rience with a digital narrative. nomenon. In 1872 an
The building hosts a variety of enormous rock, complete
cultural events and contains with 32 potholes and well-
a museum, a cinema and a sized holes, was excavated
small art gallery, as well as here. Formed by glacial
bars and a restaurant. abrasion, the rock was shown
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