3-086-344 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Advertisement for trips to Lake Lucerne, 1898. 'LUCERNE AND Its Lovely LAKE. Summer Season, 1898. For the assistance of Tourists an Official Enquiry Office has been opened by the town. Any further particulars may be obtained there, and a complimentary guide to Central Switzerland, richly illustrated and with maps, is forwarded, free of charge...to all parts of the world...THE URIROSTOCK. LUCERNE (1434 feet above sea) is the most beautiful of all the resorts of Switzerland, and most central for an endless number of excursions. Lucerne is only 22 hours from London, and 11 hours from Paris. Through Trains run twice a day from Calais and Ostend to this charming town, situated at the foot of the picturesque Lake of the Four Cantons. Visitors taking up residence in Lucerne may arrange some interesting tour daily for several weeks - by Steamboat, Mountain-Railway, or Coach - to the Gothard, Rigi, Pilatus, Stanserhorn, Burgenstock, the Brunig, Oberalp and Furka Pass (Rhone Glacier), the famous Resorts of Axenstein, Axenfels, Morschach, Seelisberg, Stoos, to Engelberg, Stans, Melchthal, and all the lovely stations round the Lake Weggis, Vitznau, Brunnen, Gersau, Beggenried, Stansstad, Kussnach, Fluelen-Altdorf, Meggen, Immensee, &c.' From "Illustrated London News", 1898.