The Lion Monument

The Lion Monument is a stone's throw away from the Galcier Garden and ranks along side the famous Chapel Bridge, another favorite tourist attraction in Lucerne, Switzerland

The Lion Monument or the Lion of Lucerne, is a sculpture in Lucerne, Switzerland, designed by Bertel Thorvaldsen. 

It commemorates the Swiss Guards who were massacred in 1792 during the French Revolution, when revolutionaries stormed the Tuileries Palace in Paris,France.

The American writer Mark Twain (1835–1910) praised the sculpture of a mortally-wounded lion as "the most mournful and moving piece of stone in the world.