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Cheese fondue, originating in Switzerland, is the original fondue, hence the French term fondue for "melted". Since the 1950s, however, the term fondue has been generalized to a number of other dishes in which a food is dipped or cooked into a communal pot kept hot. [1] Fondue eaten as a communal meal is referred to as a fondue party.
The Lucerne Cheese Festival (German: Käsefest Luzern) is a cheese festival held annually in Lucerne, Switzerland. [1] It was established in 2001 [2] and is normally run on a weekend in the middle of October at the Kapellplatz (Chapel Square) in the city centre. [3] [4] The next festival is planned to take place on 14 October 2023. [5]
Swiss cuisine (German: Schweizer Küche, French: cuisine suisse, Italian: cucina svizzera, Romansh: cuschina svizra) is an ensemble of national, regional and local dishes, consisting of the ingredients, recipes and cooking techniques developed in Switzerland or assimilated from other cultures, particularly neighboring countries.
Fondue (UK: / ˈ f ɒ n dj uː / FON-dew, US: / f ɒ n ˈ dj uː / fon-DEW, [3] [4] French:, Swiss Standard German: [fɔ̃ːˈdyː] ⓘ; Italian: fonduta) is a Swiss [5] dish of melted cheese and wine served in a communal pot (caquelon or fondue pot) over a portable stove (réchaud) heated with a candle or spirit lamp, and eaten by dipping bread and sometimes vegetables or other foods into the ...
Suva, one of Switzerland's oldest accident insurance companies, is also based in Lucerne, as is the University of Lucerne, the youngest of Switzerland's traditional universities. An international company is the EF Education First. Thanks to its continuous tax-cutting policies, Lucerne has become Switzerland's most business-friendly canton.
The inn was then bought by Ignaz Businger in 1879 and expanded into a hotel. Like many hotels of the Belle Epoque, The Château Gütsch was built on a vantage point above lakes, rivers, and cities, [1] in this case the city Lucerne and the river Reuss. The Château was built in 1884 specifically to support the hotel.
This list contains all cultural property of national significance (class A) in the canton of Lucerne from the 2009 Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of National and Regional Significance. It is sorted by municipality and contains 83 individual buildings, 27 collections, 17 archaeological finds and 6 other, special sites.
The following are the 79 municipalities of the canton of Lucerne, Switzerland (as of January 2025). [1] This article is part of a series on the: