A new luxury for billionaires: Million-dollar bunkers are being built in Switzerland

**New luxury hideaway for billionaires: Million-dollar bunkers under construction in Switzerland**

A massive bunker complex for the super-rich is being built in the Swiss Alps. The project is expected to set a new trend in the luxury shopping market.

The project is being implemented in the area of the village of Lungern near the Brünig Pass. It is headed by Swiss entrepreneur and chairman of the board of directors of the company "Brünig Mega Safe" Thomas Gasser. His family company has been engaged in underground, mining and blasting work for decades and employs about 300 people. Therefore, the team has extensive experience in rock carving.

The complex includes about 20 private storage facilities located under more than 100 meters of thick rock. According to the builders, its level of protection is equivalent to the protection of the Swiss National Bank. Getting into the bunker is not easy - customers are met at a special checkpoint at the entrance. There, they are required to get out of their cars and go through several stages of inspection. The company keeps the details of these inspections secret. Even journalists were not shown the future entrance to the complex.

The buyer of the bunker effectively becomes its owner - he receives a separate cadastral number and the right to pledge the object for a loan, like ordinary real estate. However, this luxury is not cheap: each cave is leased for 99 years, and prices start at about 1 million Swiss francs (about 1 million 256 thousand dollars).

Interestingly, previously there was a restaurant with an event area, a shooting range and a firefighter training center. This center was used to conduct firefighting exercises in tunnels.

Not all residents of Lungern are happy with the new neighborhood with billionaires. Some believe that such a luxurious bunker in the countryside is not necessary for people who already have enough. Others are more sympathetic, joking about how the new "neighbors" will drive their unique Ferraris on the mountain serpentine.

In general, the interest in underground secret vaults in Switzerland is nothing new: for years the country has been converting former military bunkers into armored storage facilities and protected data centers. The scale of the Swiss industry for storing money and valuables is already impressive: in 2024, the country's banks managed assets worth about 9.3 trillion francs (about $ 11.5 trillion), and almost half of this came from abroad.

But it is the project in Lungern that takes this idea to the highest level, offering ultra-wealthy clients from around the world a safe place for their most valuables amid growing global instability. Construction is currently underway, and the complex is scheduled to open next year.

By the way, the bunker craze is not limited to the Swiss Alps. One of the most famous "bunker billionaires" is Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg: although he has his main home in Palo Alto, he is currently building a fortified fortress in Hawaii with an underground shelter, autonomous food and water supplies, and an emergency exit.