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Fortress · Lucerne, Canton of Lucerne

Musegg Wall

Museggmauer

The Musegg Wall (Museggmauer) is the surviving stretch of Lucerne's medieval town wall, with nine towers, on the Musegg ridge in the city's old town.

Why go

The Musegg Wall is part of Lucerne's medieval fortifications. The association that maintains it says the wall was built as a town defence in the 13th century and is still 870 m long, with nine of its former 30 towers preserved: the Nölli, Männli, Luegisland, Wacht, Zyt, Schirmer, Pulver, Allenwinden and Dächli towers; Lucerne Tourism gives the wall as 800 m long and says it was erected around 1400. The association's page on visiting says the walk along the wall, the Männli, Zyt and Schirmer towers and the lower part of the Wacht tower are open to visitors in its open season, and its questions page says the wall can be walked from the Schirmer tower to the Wacht tower. The same page says the association does not run guided tours itself and asks visitors to book tours directly with the providers. This record is the wall with its towers as one place, not any single tower.

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City

Lucerne

Lucerne (Luzern) is the capital of the canton of Lucerne and, as the city's own Welcome Desk page puts it, the largest municipality in that canton. XTOUR maps the Chapel Bridge, the Lion Monument, the Musegg Wall, the Jesuit Church, the Hofkirche, the Bourbaki Panorama and the Swiss Museum of Transport in the city, and lists Pilatus, the Rigi, the Titlis and Lake Lucerne, which lie outside it, only as places based from Lucerne.

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