Lucerne - Hill

After wandering the town we took a short walk up the hill to the old town wall where you can still climb up the towers and along part of the wall.
One of the towers had an impressive clock mechanism in it for a main bell, along with a bunch of other working clocks with different designs and exposed mechanisms - more engineering, yay!
Another tower provided amazing panoramic views over the city (unfortunately cloud covered the bigger mountains in the distance).

After the towers we went to see the lion statue, which I wasn't expecting to be much, but actually turned out to be really nice/impressive. It felt secluded, surrounded by trees and a pond, while also impressively set into a rather large rock face that looked like it had been scratched by a giant paw.Read more