Glacier Garden Lucerne (Gletschergarten)

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Top 2% of attractions in Lucerne
9 / 10

4 expert reviews

“This tourist attraction, excavated between 1872 and 1875, shows stones that have been dramatically pocked and polished by Ice Age glaciers.”

– Fodor's

Frommer's Frommer's
"This so-called glacier garden has 32 "potholes" that were worn into the sandstone bed of an Iron Age glacier, during the era when ice covered the surface of Lake Lucerne." Full review
Lonely Planet Lonely Planet
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"The Gletschergarten houses a strip of rock bearing the scars (including huge potholes) inflicted on it by the glacier that slid over it some 20 million years ago." Full review
Michelin Guide Michelin Guide
1 Star
"This garden transports the visitor to a time when the plain up to the Jura was covered by the Reuss glacier." Full review