Spring Festival in Zurich, 18-Apr-2010

Every year, the guilds of Zürich and the general public celebrate their traditional spring festival: the Sechseläuten. The celebrations start on Sunday with a colourful children's procession. This is followed by the main festival on Monday: People in historical guild costumes, 500 horses, 30 marching bands, together with 50 carriages and coaches, parade through the city centre to Sechseläuten-Platz on Lake Zürich. There, at 6 p.m. a pile of wood, on which the 'Böögg' a symbolic snowman sits enthroned, is set on fire. The quicker his head catches fire and explodes, the finer the summer should be. http://www.zuerich.com/en/event_calendar/event_display.cfm?event_id=1193283&a...

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