Landmark
Weggis
Sheltered lakeside village where a mild microclimate lets palms and citrus thrive by alpine peaks.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide centers on a small stone marker by the lake in Weggis, on Lake Lucerne, and the ten weeks the American writer Mark Twain spent in the village in the summer of eighteen ninety-seven. It traces why a famous author, trailed by a ruinous debt from his own failed publishing company, could no longer afford a grand hotel, and the modest rooms his family rented instead. The guide also follows the private grief the family carried with them that summer, and the book Twain kept revising from a bench by the water.
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