St. Peter's Chapel, Lucerne , Switzerland.
GENEVA: EXPLORING the magnificent ST PIERRE (ST PETER) ⛪ CATHEDRAL (SWITZERLAND)
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The St. Pierre Cathedral is a cathedral in Geneva, Switzerland, today belonging to the Reformed Protestant Church of Geneva. It is known as the adopted home church of John Calvin, one of the leaders of the Protestant Reformation.
Switzerland is a mountainous Central European country, home to numerous lakes, villages and the high peaks of the Alps. Its cities contain medieval quarters, with landmarks like capital Bern’s Zytglogge clock tower and Lucerne’s wooden chapel bridge. The country is also known for its ski resorts and hiking trails. Banking and finance are key industries, and Swiss watches and chocolate are world renowned.
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St. Peters Church - Zurich, Switzerland
David's Been Here presents all the best sites of Zurich, Switzerland. Head down to the river where David displays St. Peter's Church, one of the four main churches in the old town of Zurich. Built in 1706 after the Protestant Reformation, this church gains its fame from its colossal church clock- which at 8 meters in diameter makes it the largest church clock in the world. Visit this stunning piece of history and enjoy the riverfront area in one of Switzerland's most beautiful cities. Find everything you need to know about visiting Zurich in the David's Been Here Guide to Switzerland, now available for your Kindle as well.
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St. Peters Church - Zurich, Switzerland
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We spend New year's eve roaming around Fraumünster Church and St. Peter Pfarrhaus. And spend the New Year staring at the fireworks display in front of the hotel.
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St. Pierre's Cathedral - Geneva, Switzerland
St. Pierre's Cathedral - Geneva, Switzerland
David's Been Here brings you around to all the top sites of Geneva, Switzerland. In the heart of the old town you can find the city's main cathedral, St. Pierre's. Dating back to the 1200's, this eclectic cathedral has both Romanesque and Medieval aspects to it, and boasts some gorgeous interior and exterior features. Head to the top of St. Pierre's with David for some of the best panoramic shots of Geneva you can find. With all the city below and France off in the distance, the view from the top is just as spectacular as the view of the cathedral itself. For more information on visiting St. Pierre's Cathedral and Geneva, check out the David's Been Here Guide to Switzerland, now available for your Kindle as well.
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Walking Tour in Switzerland - Luzern Part5 Wooden (Chapel) bridge and old Town 4K
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The Kapellbrücke (literally, Chapel Bridge) is a covered wooden footbridge spanning the River Reuss diagonally in the city of Lucerne in central Switzerland. Named after the nearby St. Peter's Chapel, the bridge is unique in containing a number of interior paintings dating back to the 17th century, although many of them were destroyed along with a larger part of the centuries-old bridge in a 1993 fire. Subsequently restored, the Kapellbrücke is the oldest wooden covered bridge in Europe, as well as the world's oldest surviving truss bridge. It serves as the city's symbol and as one of Switzerland's main tourist attractions.-Wikipedia
Walking Tour in Switzerland - Luzern Part4 City Central & Wooden (Chapel) bridge 4K ( Kapellbrücke)
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The Kapellbrücke (literally, Chapel Bridge) is a covered wooden footbridge spanning the River Reuss diagonally in the city of Lucerne in central Switzerland. Named after the nearby St. Peter's Chapel, the bridge is unique in containing a number of interior paintings dating back to the 17th century, although many of them were destroyed along with a larger part of the centuries-old bridge in a 1993 fire. Subsequently restored, the Kapellbrücke is the oldest wooden covered bridge in Europe, as well as the world's oldest surviving truss bridge. It serves as the city's symbol and as one of Switzerland's main tourist attractions.-Wikipedia
Inside St.Peter's Church in Zurich, Switzerland
Inside St.Peters's Church
Travel Switzerland - Visiting the Lausanne Cathedral
Take a tour of Lausanne Cathedral in Lausanne, Switzerland -- part of the World's Greatest Attractions travel video series by GeoBeats.
The Lausanne Cathedral is a Gothic church located in Lausanne, Switzerland.
The city of Lausanne is near Lake Geneva, in the French-speaking region of Romandy.
The building of the church began in the late 12th century, but to this day the job remains unfinished.
The church was consecrated around 100 years after construction first began, by Pope Gregory the tenth.
The inside of the church features an immense Gothic rose window, and sustaining the ceiling over the choir are graceful flying buttresses.
Although restorations continue, visitors can still walk through the Great Porch and experience the beauty that this church has to offer.
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This pretty-looking bridge is a wooden pedestrian bridge, spanning across the Reuss River in the city of Lucerne. The bridge was named after the St. Peter’s Chapel, which is the vicinity. The bridge, is one of the oldest in whole of Europe as it was built way back in 1333. The bridge, which was actually over 200 meters long, shortened in time though, and is now only 170 meters, since the bank was replenished from time to time. The reason that this bridge was built was to connect the Old Town to the New Town. The Lucerne Chapel bridge paintings are another reason that it so unique.
This might be one of the very bridges in the world where the paintings can be found under the roof. It was painted by a local painter by the name of Hans Heinrich Wagmann and showcase events from the history books of Lucerne as well as those of the patron saints of Lucerne, St. Leger and St. Maurice, among others. An unfortunate event, a fire on the bridge in 1993, destroyed most of the paintings.
If you wish to look at these paintings, which is lined up all across the bridge, in triangular wooden blocks, then you need to avoid visiting it from Late January to Early February, as those are the carnival days, and all the old paintings are with modern ones with the carnival theme. Yet another landmark is the Water Tower, and it literally stands on the water. This tower was previously a prison, but is now used as a club room and that is also the reason why it is not open to the public. What makes the Chapel Bridge more charming is the colourful flowers, blooming on either side of the bridge.
The Lion Monument - Facts, About and History
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rock relief in Lucerne, Switzerland, designed by Bertel Thorvaldsen and cut in 1820–21 by Lukas Ahorn. It commemorates the Swiss Guards who were massacred in 1792 during the French Revolution, when revolutionaries stormed the Tuileries Palace in Paris.
Mark Twain praised the sculpture of a mortally-wounded lion as the most mournful and moving piece of stone in the world.
From the early 17th century, a regiment of Swiss Guards had served as part of the Royal Household of France. On 6 October 1789, King Louis XVI had been forced to move with his family from the Palace of Versailles to the Tuileries Palace in Paris. In June 1791 he tried to flee to Montmédy near the frontier, where troops under royalist officers were concentrated. In the 1792 10th of August Insurrection, revolutionaries stormed the palace. Fighting broke out spontaneously after the Royal Family had been escorted from the Tuileries to take refuge with the Legislative Assembly. The Swiss Guards ran low on ammunition and were overwhelmed by superior numbers. A note written by the King half an hour after firing had commenced has survived, ordering the Swiss to retire and return to their barracks. Delivered in the middle of the fighting, this was only acted on after their position had become untenable.
Of the Swiss Guards defending the Tuileries, more than six hundred were killed during the fighting or massacred after surrender. An estimated two hundred more died in prison of their wounds or were killed during the September Massacres that followed. Apart from about a hundred Swiss who escaped from the Tuileries, the only survivors of the regiment were a 300 strong detachment which, with the King's authorization, had been sent to Normandy to escort grain convoys a few days before August 10. The Swiss officers were mostly amongst those massacred, although Major Karl Josef von Bachmann — in command at the Tuileries —was formally tried and guillotined in September, still wearing his red uniform coat. Two surviving Swiss officers achieved senior rank under Napoleon.
The initiative to create the monument was taken by Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen, an officer of the Guards who had been on leave in Lucerne at that time of the fight. He began collecting money in 1818. The monument was designed by Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen, and finally cut in 1820–21 by Lukas Ahorn, in a former sandstone quarry near Lucerne. Carved into the cliff face, the monument measures ten meters in length and six meters in height.
The monument is dedicated Helvetiorum Fidei ac Virtuti (To the loyalty and bravery of the Swiss). The dying lion is portrayed impaled by a spear, covering a shield bearing the fleur-de-lis of the French monarchy; beside him is another shield bearing the coat of arms of Switzerland. The inscription below the sculpture lists the names of the officers and gives the approximate numbers of soldiers who died (DCCLX = 760), and survived (CCCL = 350).
The monument is described by Thomas Carlyle in The French Revolution: A History. The pose of the lion was copied in 1894 by Thomas M. Brady (1849–1907) for his Lion of Atlanta in the Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta, Georgia.
The Lion lies in his lair in the perpendicular face of a low cliff — for he is carved from the living rock of the cliff. His size is colossal; his attitude is noble. His head is bowed, the broken spear is sticking in his shoulder, his protecting paw rests upon the lilies of France. Vines hang down the cliff and wave in the wind, and a clear stream trickles from above and empties into a pond at the base, and in the smooth surface of the pond the lion is mirrored, among the water-lilies.
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Lucerne - a gem in the heart of Switzerland
Goethe described Switzerland as a combination of the colossal and the well-ordered. One is always sure that the trains and letters will be on time. The tidy, just-so precision of Swiss towns is tempered by the lofty splendor of the landscapes that surround them. Fresh mountain air, clear blue lakes and clean cultured cities make Switzerland a dream come true.
A gem at the heart of Switzerland is Lucerne, lapped by scenic Lake Lucerne and surrounded by majestic snow-capped mountains - its striking skyline epitomizes the very essence of Switzerland. It is often considered to be the true Swiss capital. Charming Lucerne has an 'Old Town' center of 15th-century buildings with painted facades, towers, a 17th-century Renaissance town hall, old squares and picture-perfect medieval bridges adorned with rooftop art.
Any tour of Lucerne must begin with the 14th-century covered Kapellbrücke (Chapel Bridge), the oldest road bridge in Europe, angled around the octagonal mid-river Wasserturm (water tower). Constructed in 1333 as a part of the city's fortifications and named after St. Peterskapelle (St. Peter's Chapel), which is located nearby, the wooden bridge has come to stand as the symbol of Lucerne. The principal historical interest of the bridge lay in its collection of double-sided triangular roof ceiling panels, painted by Heinrich Wägmann in 1614 with scenes from the city's historical past and mythological events, including the biographies of the city's patron saints, St. Leodegar and St. Maurice. Each is numbered, and captioned with rhyming couplets, the idiosyncratic local dialect written out in obscure medieval gothic script. The most distinctive image is panel no. 31, which shows William Tell shooting the apple from his son's head.
The water tower - over 34 meters high - was built around 1300 as part of the city wall and used as an archive, treasury, prison and torture chamber. It is Lucerne's landmark and the most frequently photographed monument in Switzerland. Kapellplatz, at the bridgehead of the Kapellbrücke, encircles the tiny 18th-century St. Peter's Chapel, built over a predecessor dating from as early as 1178. Some 150m west is Kornmarkt, site of the medieval public marketplace. On one side, overlooking the riverside market area of Unter der Egg, is the huge Rathaus, completed in 1606 in Italian Renaissance style but crowned with an oddly incongruous Emmentaler-style roof.
The twin needle towers of the church of St. Leodegar, which was named after the city's patron saint, sit on a small hill just above the lakefront. Originally built as a Benedictine monastery in 735, the present structure was erected in 1633 in the late Renaissance style. It is the most important Renaissance church in Switzerland. Especially noteworthy are the façade, Mary's altar (with a relief panel dating from 1500), and the souls' altar. The interior is richly decorated. The church is popularly called the Hofkirche (Hof Church).
Not far from the city center is is one of the world's most famous monuments, the dying Lion of Lucerne (Löwendenkmal), done by Danish artist Bertel Thorvaldsen) in 1819-21. It was carved out of natural rock in memory of the heroic deaths of some 800 Swiss guards who were massacred in 1792 during the French Revolution, when the mob stormed the Tuileries Palace in Paris, where King Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette and their children took refuge. Mark Twain described the Lion of Lucerne as the saddest and most moving piece of rock in the world.
The ringing church bells of St. Leodegar Hofkirche in Luzern, Switzerland
Used to awake daily to these ringing church bells when I was in Luzern for a week during March. The streets were quiet except for an occasional footsteps of a passerby while in the background, the sound of the ringing bells would be echoing down the streets and against the mountains in the cold dawn.. Decided to go down to the church one day to just record the sound of the ringing bells and bring it home with me.
Jesuit Church Lucerne, Switzerland
In August I was in Lucerne, Switzerland. While in the Baroque Jesuit Church, the organist began to play. I took the opportunity to film the interior while the organ was playing.
Choir Singing at Jesuit Church in Lucerne, Switzerland
On our tour through Lucerne a tourist group (apparently from the USA) decided to test the acoustics in Jesuit Church. I am not sure what song they sang but it was absolutely gorgeous!
A Visit to the Jesuit Church in Lucerne, Switzerland
In August I was in Lucerne, Switzerland. While in the Baroque Jesuit Church, the organist began to play. I took the opportunity to film the interior while the organ was playing. I originally posted only the video I took inside the Church. Here, I have added some more of my photos of the Church and commentary.
Churches in Switzerland (long version)
Amazing architecture of St. Peter’s Chapel in Bruges, Belgium
Amazing architecture of St. Peter’s Chapel in Bruges, Belgium
Historic Churches, Zurich (Switzerland) - Travel Guide
Zurich's skyline is dominated by beautiful churches.
Water Tower & Chapel Bridge at Luzern, Switzerland
Water Tower: This octagonal tower - over 34 meters high (111.5 ft.) - was built around 1300 as part of the city wall and used as an archive, treasury, prison and torture chamber. It is Lucerne's trademark and the most frequently photographed monument in Switzerland.
Chapel Bridge: Constructed in first half of the 14th century as a part of the city's fortifications and named after St. Peter's Chapel, which is located nearby. The paintings that were added in the 17th century illustrate scenes of Swiss and local history, including the biographies of the city's patron saints, St. Leodegar and St. Maurice.