Tourist attraction
Zivilschutzanlage Sonnenberg
Cold War motorway tunnel doubling as a vast fallout shelter built to hold twenty thousand residents.
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This guide to the Zivilschutzanlage Sonnenberg in Lucerne centers on November nineteen eighty-seven, when hundreds of civil defense volunteers spent five days trying to convert a motorway tunnel into shelter for thousands of people. It follows the bunker built into the mountain in the nineteen seventies, and the strain the exercise placed on doors, bunks, and communication underground. You will also meet a present-day guide who has led visitors through the tunnels for years. Best heard standing near the blast doors, looking down the length of the tunnel.
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