Chapel Bridge

The Chapel Bridge is a covered wooden footbridge spanning the River Reuss diagonally inside the town of Lucerne in crucial Switzerland. Named after the nearby St. Peter's Chapel, the bridge is unique in containing a number of interior paintings courting lower back to the seventeenth century, despite the fact that a lot of them have been destroyed along side a larger part of the centuries-old bridge in a 1993 fire. Subsequently restored, the Kapellbrücke is the oldest wooden protected bridge in Europe, in addition to the sector's oldest surviving truss bridge.

 

It serves as the city's image and as one of Switzerland's most important traveler attractions. Part of the bridge complicated is the octagonal 34.5 m tall Wasserturm, which translates to "water tower," inside the sense of 'tower status within the water'. The tower pre-dated the bridge with the aid of approximately 30 years. Over the centuries, the tower has been used as a jail, torture chamber, and later a municipal archive. Today, the tower is closed to the general public, although it houses a nearby artillery affiliation and a traveler present keep.