Monument to the Lion

The Lucerne Lion Monument (in German: Löwendenkmal) (also called the dying Lion of Lucerne or the wounded Lion of Lucerne) is a sculpture made between 1819 and 1821 by the Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen on a rock wall of the city of Lucerna in Switzerland to commemorate the death in 1792 of some 700 mercenaries of the Swiss Guard during the French Revolution when they defended the assault of the revolutionaries on the Palace

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