"Why Pilatus?" Top 5 Page for this destination Pilatus Local Custom Tip by Tripack

The mountain was called in the past Frakmünt (broken mountain). An old legend explains that the body and soul of Pontius Pilate haunted a lake at the summit. So the mountain was considered as cursed for several centuries and has inherited the name of the governor of Judea. The climbing of Mount Pilate was stricly forbidden under penalty death. Locals believed if strangers disturbed the Pontius Pilate spirit, it would triggered his anger and occured terrible thunderstorms and floods on Lucerne and surroundings. At the end of XVIth century, this fear about Mount Pilatus disappeared gradually...