The count down to Fasnacht is on! But have you got your Fasnacht costume? Official celebrations start from Saturday 22nd February and run through to 7th March. Shops, streets, train stations, offices, and anywhere else you can imagine are decorated and ready for the party […]
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The Luzerner Theater is delighted to invite you to the theatre! The programme includes varied productions: «Trouble in Tahiti», an entertaining opera with swinging music by Leonard Bernstein, and «Seeing Within Sight», a highly aesthetic dance evening.A small white house in a perfect suburban location,
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Geisslechlöpfe is a custom celebrated in the city of Lucerne that gets everyone, well almost everyone, in the mood for Samichlaus season. This year the streets will resonate with the rhythmic sounds of whip cracking between 3 November and 8 December when the Geisslechlöpfer are
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For most November 11 is known as remembrance day, but for Luzerners and many other German speaking cities the 11.11.at 11.11 is precisely the beginning of Fasnacht season (also known as the fifth season). In the past, a period of fasting began after 11 November
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I have to admit it, autumn is my favourite season. The first nip in the air, the changing colour and the abundance of free edible goods is just too good an opportunity to pass up on. I have been mushrooming since I was a child,
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The leaves are starting to change colour, the temperature is slowly dropping, there’s mist across Lake Lucerne and a dusting of snow on Pilatus. This can only mean one thing. Autumn has arrived in Switzerland! Before we unpack our skis or snowshoes and get cosied-up
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If you have passed by the KKL or Lucerne train station this past week then you may have noticed a hive of activity as the city prepares for it’s annual Autumn Fair. Or maybe you noticed the huge ferris wheel appear overnight. Either way, you
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The Lucerne Festival is one of the oldest festivals in Lucerne, founded in 1938, and is considered by many as one of the grandest. But don’t let the prices or the sign of people dressed up to the nines and bejewelled put you off. The
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The Luzerner Theater is offering a 50% discount to our readers for the next 2 productions of La Bohème. With an extinguished candle and the modest wish for some warmth against the winter cold, Mimì stands at Rodolfo’s door one evening. It is the coincidence
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How artistically inspiring can it be to work in a sustainable way? This production proves: very much so! The multifaceted stage design consisting of many mirrors, originally created for last season’s drama production «The Picture of Dorian Gray» is being brought back to life in
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