I dreamed that you were with me, and we were looking at the Lion of Lucerne.

The dying lion roared, and you clasped me so tightly in your fright, that I awoke,--all of which reminds me that I have not told you much about this city or its sights.
The Lion, I suppose is Lucerne's most distinctive curiosity.

As you will see by the card, it is a large figure of a lion carved out of the solid rock in the hillside.

Thorwaldsen furnished the model.

It was made to commemorate the bravery of the Swiss guards who fought in the service of Louis XVI at the outbreak of the French Revolution.
Switzerland is sometimes called the playground of Europe.