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    • Sunday, February 10, 2008 at 2:30 PM
    • ☀️ 5 °C
    • Altitude: 459 m
    • SwitzerlandLucerne-Stadt District47°3’30” N  8°18’39” E

    Lion Monument, Lucerne, Switzerland

    February 10, 2008 in Switzerland ⋅ ☀️ 5 °C

    One of the beautiful sad lion sculpture saw in the park. The local landmark.

    The Lion Monument (German: Löwendenkmal), or the Lion of Lucerne, is a rock relief in Lucerne, Switzerland, designed by Bertel Thorvaldsen and hewn 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."
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