Chapel Bridge

About this audio guide

This guide to the Chapel Bridge in Lucerne turns on the night of the eighteenth of August, nineteen ninety-three, when fire tore through the covered wooden crossing, and the carpenters who rebuilt it in a single winter. It follows the joiners and roofers who worked the same oak and hand-cut joints as the bridge's medieval builders, and the seventeenth-century painter Hans Heinrich Wagmann, whose story panels once lined its roofline. Stand near the Water Tower and look up at the trusses overhead as you listen.