Go early or come late as there are plenty of tour groups that visit this beautiful monument. Any tourist map will guide you as it is located in Lucerne’s Old Town. It was literally carved into a cliff face.

Designed by Bertel Thorvaldsen back in 1820, this stone sculpture commemorates the death of Swiss Guards who were massacred during the French Revolution back in 1792. They were trying to protect the royalty at the Tulleries Palace in Paris, but were defeated by the revolutionaries.

Mark Twain visited here back in circa 1880. He was so impressed that he wrote The Lion of Lucerne as “the most mournful and moving piece of stone in the world.” It is quite impressive being over thirty feet in length and nearly 20 feet high.

Most people visit the famous Kapellbrucke” bridge, but you really haven’t see Lucerne until you visit The Lion of Lucerne.

Not very far away is the Panorama of General Bourbaki. This 1880’s panorama depicts the Swiss saving a French Army from a Prussian slaughter.