Rathaus Stadt Luzern

About this audio guide

This guide to the Rathaus on Lucerne's Kornmarkt starts with a date carved in stone that does not match its own tower. Architect Anton Isenmann had four years, from sixteen oh two to sixteen oh six, to wrap a new Renaissance town hall around a much older watchtower he was forbidden to touch. You will hear how that constraint gave the building two entirely different faces, and what the ground floor once traded before it became a hall for concerts and exhibitions. Best heard standing at the Kornmarkt entrance, looking up at the mismatched roofline.