The Chapel Bridge in Lucerne was built in the year 1365 as a part of the city’s original fortifications. Today, it is the oldest covered wooden bridge in Europe which is still standing. What makes the bridge so famous is the fact that around the 1700s, there were around 150 triangular paintings positioned inside the bridge in the gables.
A large chunk of these paintings depicting the everyday life of the people of Lucerne was lost in a fire but there are a few fully preserved paintings which you can still see when you walk on the bridge.