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Town Lucerne: REUSS RIVER, Switzerland, a tribi of the Aar, formed by two headstreams, rising near the St. Gotthard Pass and the i near the Furka Pass. It flows north past AiJtt, and before reaching Amsteg traverses a rrow gorge spanned by the Devil's Bridge and ler wonders of Swiss roadmaking. It enters ike Uri, the southern end of Lake Lucerne, iving the latter at the town Lucerne of Lucerne on the rth end. Flowing north, it reaches the Aar ir Windisch in Aargau. The Reuss has a igth of 99 miles.
Lucerne is the center of centers for tourism, its supremacy not seriously challenged even by Interlaken, and since World War II its supremacy has been anchored and confirmed by the establishment of the August International Festival of Music, now one of the big-league musical events of the Continent. It was none other than Arturo Toscanini who planted this festival, as it were, for during Hitler's regime in Austria, just before war broke out, he angrily refused to conduct in the Salzburg Festival and took himself and his prestige to Lucerne, which had hitherto been a musical nobody.
In its role as scenic center Lucerne is the take-off point for funicular or cableway ascents of famous local mountains (Pilatus, Rigi, Stanserhorn, etc.); for the motor-coach specialty called the Three-Passes Tour (Furka—Grimsel—Susten); for the Brunig Past (by rail or car); for the St. Gotthard Pass and the St. Gotthard Railway Tunnel Route to Ticino and Italy; for the Engelberg Valley and its rugged peaks; for the lovely Emmental, whose contented cows give lots of mill! for Emmentaler cheese, and these are only a few of the fanwise trips to be made from Lucerne. |
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