Luzern / Lucerne

Maps on our site:

• 1550, Sebastian Munster, Cosmographiae Universalis, 367
  
  
• 1572, Braun and Hogenberg, Civitates Orbis Terrarum, map I-32

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• Luzern Valegio Francesco, 1625 ?
  From the website of Biblioteca Nationale Marciana
  
  
  
• Maps from The Ryhiner Map Collection,
  Municipal and University Library of Bern (German):
  
  Luzern town scape, 1764
  
  Luzern town scape, 18th century
  
  

Fishing village evolved near 8th-cen. Benedictine monastery of St. Leodegar (Luciaria), inhabitants were serfs of the monastery; developed into important trade center after St. Gotthard Pass opened route between upper Rhine & Lombardy ca. 1230.

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