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Published on 24 March 2025

5 winter traditions you won’t find outside of Switzerland

Onlookers might call these happenings a nightmarish freak show. But for the Swiss, they are a normal part of winter: living traditions that have barely changed for generations.

Winter landscape in Interlaken, Switzerland, featuring a mountain house, snow-covered fir trees, a lake, and Alpine peaks under a partly cloudy sky.