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26 July 2015

Löwendenkmal, Luzern

Loewendenkmal

The Lion Monument or Löwendenkmal in Lucerne was hewn in 1820-1 to commemorate the Swiss Guards killed during the storming of the Tuileries Palace in 1792. For an expression of 19th-century Romanticism you can't do much better, and it received praise from Thomas Carlyle and Mark Twain. All abandoned quarries should finish off this grandly. Photo. [Maria of One Girl One Suitcase visits the Lion Monument.]

Posted at 01:27 AM in Lions, Statues, Swiss Things |

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