Live Webcams in Lucerne

Lucerne, at the point where the Reuss leaves the lake, is Switzerland’s most photographed city, and the live webcams in Lucerne face the reason: the river mouth with its swans and paddle steamers, the wooden Chapel Bridge with its water tower, the old-town frontages and, on a clear day, Pilatus and the Alps behind. The bridge you see is largely a rebuild, after a fire in 1993 destroyed most of it and its painted panels. Luzern, as the locals write it, keeps Central European Time, UTC+1 and UTC+2 in summer; winter mornings can be foggy on the lake, and summer afternoons are when the boats run and the promenade fills. Pilatus, the mountain behind the city, is reached by a cog railway with a gradient of 48 percent, the steepest in the world. Fasnacht, the carnival before Lent, turns the old town loud in February.