Museum
Glacier Garden of Lucerne
Ice-age potholes ground into sandstone beside a mirror maze modeled on the Alhambra.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Glacier Garden in Lucerne follows Josef Wilhelm Amrein-Troller, a nineteenth-century innkeeper who set out in eighteen seventy-two to blast a simple wine cellar into the sandstone here. It follows what his workmen found instead, and how one address in Lucerne came to hold traces of both an ice age and a lost subtropical coastline. You will also hear about the Alhambra-style mirror maze added to the grounds later, one of the site's more playful survivals.
This audio guide was created using AI.