LUCERNE, Switzerland -- Lake Lucerne winds through the Alps with a series of bends, S-curving around towering mountains like slalom skiers carving into snow thousands of feet above. But even though ...

Pretty, pristine, and lakeside, and at the foot of a towering hulk of a mountain, Lucerne has long been Switzerland’s tourism capital. Since the Romantic era in the 19th century, it’s been a regular ...