Spreuer Bridge

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Lonely Planet review

After fire destroyed the Kapellbrücke, the wooden Spreuer Bridge (Spreuerbrücke), zigzagging across the Reuss, became Lucerne's oldest bridge. It was built in 1407 and its 17th-century roof paintings remain intact, detailing 56 movie-storyboard-style scenes by Caspar Meglinger, called The Dance of Death.

In each scene Death may change his garb but his mocking smile never wavers as he shows no mercy to the painted facsimiles of priests, nuns, warriors, royalty, academics, the hunter, the young bride, and even the artist himself.