Lake of the Four Cantons

The Lake of the Four Cantons (in German Vierwaldstättersee , Italian Lago dei Quattro Cantoni / Lago di Lucerna , romanche Lag Lucerna and English Lake Lucerne ) is a lake of the fjord type of central Suisse. It makes 38 km length of the mouth to the outfall of the Reuss. It is located at a level 434 meters with the top of the sea, makes 114 km ², and reached depth a 214 meters.

Its name comes from the meeting of the cantons of Uri, of Schwytz, Nidwald and Lucerne.

Curiosities

  • Mountains: Rigi, Pilatus, Bürgenstock, Stanserhorn, Urirotstock
  • legendary Places: the Grütli, vault of Guillaume Tell.
  • Tourism: Swiss Way

Quotations

  • the German poet Ludwig Rellstab indicated in 1832 to see in the first movement of the Sonate for piano n° 14 of Beethoven a “boat with the moonlight on the Lake of the Four Cantons”.

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