Swiss Spring Carnival: Fasnacht in Einsiedeln Part 1 Filipina🇵🇭 Swiss 🇨🇭4K

Описание: Spring is well on its way. I have been marking the change of the seasons with walks out in the weak sunshine, listening to the birds’ excited chatter and smiling every time I see a new bulb clawing its way through earth recently released from Winters’ iron clasp. My modest celebrations of the coming of Spring are nothing though to those we observed in Switzerland last month.

Einsiedeln near Zürich. Einsideln is a small town famous for its abbey and Benedictine monastery dedicated to local hermit St. Meinrad. For most of the year Einsiedeln is a pretty, clean and typically Swiss town and the gateway to some fantastic scenery and outdoor recreation opportunities. During one week in February every year though the whole town descends into the noisy chaos of carnival. The costumes are impressive, the partying goes on into the small hours and the streets are littered with confetti. This is Fasnacht – the time of parades and masked balls, of playing jokes and letting your hair down, of chasing away the winter and the locals throw themselves into it with surprisingly un-Swiss abandon.

Fasnacht has a long history in Switzerland and is not confined to Einsiedeln or its immediate region. The largest, best known celebrations are those of Basel and Lucerne with ornate costumes, huge floats and similarly large-scaled parties and they are well known to international visitors. Other regions are famous for certain customs, such as Liestal, which is renowned for its fiery Chienbase parade. Burning bundles of pinewood are taken through the streets, some made into bonfires drawn on large carts and people flock from all over Switzerland and beyond to watch. Most of the main Fasnacht celebrations take place in the weeks leading up to Ash Wednesday and each separate festival has its own origins made up varying degrees of religious, cultural and historical elements. They all share a common theme though – the celebration of the end of winter which sees its roots going back to pagan times.

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