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Copyright: Stefania Cotta Done (stecotdon) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 930 W: 144 N: 817] (4883)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2005-05-01
Categories: Daily Life, Architecture
Camera: Canon Ixus 400
Exposure: f/7.1, 1/250 seconds
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2005-06-07 4:34
Viewed: 932
Points: 11
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Another picture taken in Luzern.
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Nobody really knows exactly when Luzern was founded. The city consisted of a "a settlement on marshy ground" in the mid-eighth century when the small Benedictine monastery which existed here is thought to have come under the control of the Alsatian Abbey of Murbach. Nothing concrete is known about Luzern until 1178, when an abbot established a lay order at the Kapellkirche (now St Peter’s Chapel), indicating that quite a substantial settlement must have existed in the area. Around 1220, the opening of the Gotthard pass further south created new impetus for growth, with merchants and travellers setting sail from Luzern for the long trans-Alpine journey (the first lakeside road was built only in 1865).

Eyeing the prosperity flowing into the communities on the northern side of the new pass, Rudolf of Habsburg bought Luzern outright from Murbach in 1291, intending to subdue it and channel its profits into the imperial coffers. At the same time, though, the peasant farmers of Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden on the eastern shores of the lake had formed a pact of mutual defence at Rütli against the Austrian threat, and after some instability, Luzern joined them in 1332, the first major city to do so. This pact was the beginning of the Swiss Confederation, which survives today. Pro-Habsburg attempts to undermine the pact continued to flourish. The defeat of Austrian forces in the Battle of Sempach in 1386 severed the Habsburg claim to Luzern, and the city’s elders reinforced their independence by building the Musegg fortifications, which survive today.

The early nineteenth-century quarrels in politics and religion led to civil war, with Luzern at the heart of the Catholic rebel Sonderbund– an association which, after Confederate forces had reasserted their control in 1847, led to Luzern being passed over for the choice of federal capital.By this time, though, tourism to Switzerland had already begun, and with the cessation of hostilities Luzern became a focus for the increasing tide of foreign visitors, both for its own lakeside location, and as the gateway to the high Alps. Today, Luzern is one the most heavly visited citites in Switzerland.
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This photo doesn't have any particular point of interet. Just a peak of the wonderful town and the river Reuss which devides the town in two banks.

take care everyone, Stef
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  • Great 
  • fer Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 791 W: 131 N: 909] (8073)
  • [2005-06-07 4:44]

Olá Stefania,
Mais um belo postal da Suiça e uma grande nota também.
Fica bem,
Fernando

haha, 'doesn't have any particular point of interest' -- apart from the fact it is stunningly beautiful ! Great postcard, Stef !

Marleen

  • Good 
  • brody Silver Star Critiquer [C: 11 W: 0 N: 8] (64)
  • [2005-06-07 6:27]

I like it . Poignant and picturesque...
Godbless
Brody

lovey 'postcard' Stef! i really like the contrasts of lines here.. very nice.. it certainly looks like you visited some beautiful places :-) that's great.. there's so much beauty in the world and we should drink all of it up when ever we can..

terrific shot dear :-)
Ayda

Estou a adorar ver a Suiça pelos seus olhos e pelas suas notas.
É sempre bom ver as suas fotos de paisagens ;-)
Gostei muito do angulo, que escolheu devido à estrutura da ponte que guia o nosso olhar pela foto. Bem visto.
Parabéns!!

Ana

PS: Mais uma excelente nota

Hello from Holland
this is a very nice photo Stef.
''Water under the bridge '' (^_^)

T F S

John

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