To the Lucerne Festival with Vip Limousine, car rental service, from Milan
The Swiss heart
Switzerland is an amazing country, from nature, with its incredible landscapes showing majestic peaks on green pastures, to the culture, with a rich panorama of places to visit and events not to be missed. So close to Italy, easily accessible from several mountain passes of the Alpine Chain, Switzerland is the destination that Vip Limousine, car rental service with driver in Milan, offers to those who wants to discover and enjoy the Helvetian charm.
So let us start with the discovery of the Swiss core, from where the history began! On 1 August 1291, a confederal pact joined the three central Cantons of Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden: with this union began the country’s expansion, making Switzerland one of the most ancient States still existing in the world. The Swiss core is made of lakes in the mountains, giving a mild climate in this area, historical monuments and fascinating landscapes: from the monument of the Swiss National hero William Tell, to the baroque abbeys, from the steamships on the lakes to the perpetual snow of the peaks.
The Lucerne Festival
In the center of this heart is located Lucerne, known from the music lovers for hosting the traditional musical festival, with always prestigious participations and a rich calendar of events. Among the protagonists of the 2017 Edition we remember Riccardo Chailly who will open the Festival on Friday 11 August 2017 with a free concert conducting the Lucerne Festival Orchestra playing the work of Richard Strauss “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”.
A visit to Lucerne offers many opportunities to discover its beauties: the Riviera of the Lake of the Four Cantons with its steamship and the historic Seebad, Lucerne’s beach resort.
The Swiss Museum of Transports offers attractions and spectacular installations, as the Imax, the Planetarium, the Swiss Arena and the Hans Erni Museum, dedicated to the famous Swiss painter, designer and sculptor.
In the city center, the Rosengart Collection hosts works by Klee, Picasso and Cézanne and the Richard Wagner Museum, once residence of the artist and today a collection of objects, furniture and documents dating back to the period of his stay in the city.
Very particular is the Bourbaki-Panorama, a huge 112 m circular painting high 10, one of the few paintings of this kind, illustrating a moment of the capitulation in the French-Prussian war in 1870-71, an important testimony of the Swiss history.
The mountains surrounding Lucerne reveal a wonderful alpine landscape, as Rigi, “the queen of mountains” and its view on 13 lakes, the Alps and the Black Forest, Mount Titlis, Mount Pilatus, all reachable by cable car and rack railway, the oldest in Europe and the steepest in the world.
The legend of William Tell
Let us come back to the core of the Tour, to the origins of what nowadays is a unique country still fascinating with the tales related to its foundations.
We discover then the elements of a legend, the legend of Willam Tell, rightly considered one of the most influential figure of history, not only Swiss history: he personifies the courageous, the one who rebelled against injustices, a hero whose legend is still today kept alive in the places of origin, rich of suggestion and historical evocation.
From Lake Uri to the Gotthard’s glaciers, passing through Sisikon, near the Tell’s Chapel, where according to the legend William Tell jumped off the boat of the prefect Gessler to save himself.
We leave just for a while our beautiful car with driver and we board, just because the easiest and spectacular way is to reach by boat the Rütli Meadow. The Rütli Meadow is the foundation’s location, a mythological place full of history. All Swiss citizens recognize it as the cradle of the country, where, to commemorate the founder’s deeds, every year since 1862 there is an archery competition in the occasion of the feast of Saint Martin.
For meals and accommodation Vip Limousine, car rental service in Milan, on the basis of its several experiences with this tour, chooses with care and attention high class structures. We can also provide different accommodation, following our Customer’s wishes and request, but always with the usual regard adopted in managing and planning our excursions with driver.
Vip Limousine, car rental service with driver in Milan, is in fact more than a simple supplier of luxury private means of transport: it is a supplier of complete exclusive services, in every detail.
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