Bourbaki Panorama

Perhaps the most unusual attraction in Lucerne is the enormous panoramic painting and sculpture depicting the escape of 87,000 members of the French army to Switzerland during the Franco-Prussian War in the winter of 1871. 

The circular painting and three-dimensional foreground are the work of Edouard Castres, who traveled with the army as a Red Cross worker. Completed in 1881, the work is 112 meters long and 10 meters high and considered one of the finest examples of panoramic art.