The world's most beautiful and inspiring journey

The "Grand Tour" was the journey of the very rich across Europe in the days before trains and cars,  when travel was difficult and took years instead of days. 

The Grand Tourists didn’t have cameras to take pictures, so they brought painters to make a record of their travels (they were very, very rich after-all). 

The Grand Tour painters exhibited and sold their paintings on their return to the cities they came from, and this inspired other artists to travel to the Lake in search of places to paint. All this then attracted the poets, the writers, and the music composers.

The Lake of Lucerne Grand Tour is, in essence, all the locations around the lake of Lucerne stretching from Lucerne to Brunnen, that have inspired some of the very best creative minds that have ever lived. 

Hans Holbein the Younger, JMW Turner, Goethe, Mark Twain, Rachmaninoff others. These artists travelled in search of the most beautiful locations around the lake and these locations can now be enjoyed with the story of their art and the events that inspired them. 

The Grand Tourists did not travel to the Lake of Lucerne for “Chocolate & Cheese Switzerland” and souveier buying, they came for the inspiring beauty of the region and the experience that that creates.