Sechseläuten 
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Every year (since 1904) the guilds of Zürich and the townspeople celebrate their traditional spring festival, Sechseläuten
(Züri German: Sächsilüüte). The celebrations get underway on Sunday already, with a charming and colorful children's parade.
On Monday is the procession of the guilds to the bonfire where the "Böögg" (snowman effigy stuffed with firecrackers)
is burned six o'clock in the evening, sharp. Some call it 'rich people's carnival'. What looks like Carnival is a showcase of real historic dress costumes (15th century and up). Every year a guest canton's invited, this year it's been the canton of Zug, including 3 steel bands: Tartarugas, PanPhonics, Pan Dreams.
Children's parade on Sunday
Children's parade on Sunday

Jugendmusik Zürich 11
Jugendmusik Zürich 11



Right above the 1750 board you see a statue, that's Heinrich Pestalozzi who has for decades been acknowledged as the founder of pedagogy and as propagandist of a general education for all people - an educational reformer exactly in that patrician era.
Right above the 1750 board you see a statue, that's Heinrich Pestalozzi who has for decades been acknowledged as the founder of pedagogy and as propagandist of a general education for all people - an educational reformer exactly in that patrician era.

This is a search picture: Find the child with acute ear pain :-)
This is a search picture: Find the child with acute ear pain :-)







Cadets
Cadets



Did you actually know that gun ownership is a mandatory community duty, not a matter of individual free choice in Switzerland? To this day, every able-bodied male between the ages of 20 and 34, is issued a full automatic military rifle (incl. ammunition) and required to keep it at home. Virtually there's one in every Swiss household. Armed neutrality - YUK!!
Did you actually know that gun ownership is a mandatory community duty, not a matter of individual free choice in Switzerland? To this day, every able-bodied male between the ages of 20 and 34, is issued a full automatic military rifle (incl. ammunition) and required to keep it at home. Virtually there's one in every Swiss household. Armed neutrality - YUK!!








Ils figls d'Engiadina fat flot...
Ils figls d'Engiadina fat flot...


Uorsins
Uorsins


Public service vehicle
Public service vehicle