List of traditions

Aarau Bachfischet

Aare Swimming in Bern

Abbeys of Vaud

Absinthe culture in Val-de-Travers

Albanifest

Almanach romand «Messager boiteux»

Alpine pasture season*

Alpine processions in Appenzell and Toggenburg

Alpinism*

Älplerchilbi and Sennenchilbi (Alpine fairs)

Amateur theatre in Central Switzerland

Amateur theatre in the French-speaking part of Switzerland

Animal husbandry and cow fighting

Anna Göldi

Appenzell humour

Art of découpage in the Pays d’Enhaut, in Saanenland and in Simmental

Artistic expression in Fribourg patois and Senslerdeutsch dialect

Ascension Day processions in Beromünster and surroundings

Avalanche risk management*

Badenfahrt

Bandella

Basel Autumn Fair

Basel Carnival*

Basel drumming

Bears in Bern

Bechtelistag Frauenfeld

Belle Epoque excursions in the Lake Geneva region

Bern’s big race days – Soapbox races in Bern

Bernese dialect music and literature

Bikers' meeting in Hauenstein

Bilingualism in Biel/Bienne

Blacksmithing

Bochselnacht

Book culture in St Gallen

Botany in Geneva and the «marronnier de la Treille»

Breeding Franches-Montagnes Horses

Bull markets and cattle shows in Central Switzerland

Carnival in Central Switzerland

Carnival in Jura

Casting cowbells from bronze

Chaindon Fair (Foire de Chaindon)

Chalandamarz

Cherry growing

Chestnut farming, chestnuts and roast chestnut sellers

Chienbäse

Chlefele

Choral singing in the canton of Fribourg

Christmas in Innerrhoden

Christmas Novena in Morcote

Chrööpfelimee

Clubs and societies

Cold water swimming and the Coupe de Noël

Collecting and cultivating of wild plants

Commemoration of Saint Nicholas of Flüe

Consensus-seeking and direct democracy

Conservation of seeds

Cooperatives in Valais

Corpus Christi festival of the Herrgottskanoniere

Corpus Christi in Savièse

Corpus Christi procession in Appenzell

Corso fleuri in Neuchâtel

Cottage gardens in Osterfingen

Country youth festivals of Vaud

Demoscene and digital creativity

Development of tourism in the countryside of Central Switzerland

Drawing lots for alpine pastures

Dry stone walling*

Eierläset

Epighany singing

Fairs of Saint Martin and Saint Provino

Faith healing

Feast of Saint Martin in Ajoie

Fête des Fontaines (fountain festival)

Fifes and drums in the canton of Valais

Folk dancing in Central Switzerland

Folk dancing in Northwest Switzerland

Folk music and Jutz in Central Switzerland

Folk music in Graubünden

Folk music in the Appenzellerland and Toggenburg regions

Fondue as a social event

Fruit growing and processing

Gansabhauet

Geneva Revue

Ghost stories in Central Switzerland

Glarus Cantonal Assembly

Glarus choirs and orchestras

Gotthard stories

Graphic design and typography

Greiflet

Groppenfasnacht

Grotto culture in Italian Switzerland

Handloom weaving and cross-stitch from Graubünden

Herbal knowledge in the convents of Central Switzerland

Hiking

Historic militias

Holy Week processions in Mendrisio*

Hom Strom

Hornussen

Housing cooperatives

Hürnä and Mazza Cula

Hydroelectric expertise

Ice-skating on the River Doubs

Illuminations and fireworks at the Rhine Falls

Illustration, comics and poster art in Geneva

Inferno ski race in Mürren

Innerrhoden Cantonal Assembly

Italianità in Valais

Jass

Jewish cultural heritage in Aargau

Jurassian patois

Knabenschiessen

Knowledge of the weather and climate

Köhlern – a method of charcoal production in Entlebuch

L'Escalade

L’Esprit de Genève (Spirit of Geneva)

La Bénichon

La Fabrique

Lateen sailing boats on Lake Geneva

Lausanne cathedral night watchman

Le Feuillu

Liestal’s Banntag (community boundary day)

Lower Valais patois

Machine embroidery in St. Gallen

Maiensässfahrt and Gita a Selva (Trip to the alpine pastures)

Mammut river raft race

Mask carving and Fasnacht in Sarganserland

Maypoles adorning fountains

Meitlisonntig (Girls’ Sunday)

Métairies: the mountain inns of the Bernese Jura

Moped rally in Ennetmoos

Näfels procession

Natural healing in Appenzell Ausserrhoden

Natural history group excursions

Natural yodeling and yodel songs

Neuchâtel lace

Neuchâtel Revolution commemorative march

Neuchâtel skittles

Nicknames in Central Switzerland

No e Wili (open-air performance)

Nomadic tradition of the Jenish and Sinti

Number 11 in Solothurn

Nünichlingler

Open-air festival culture

Operettas in Aargau

Patterns and scarves from Glarus

Peasant art around Mount Säntis

Peasant-style ceramics

Pilgrimage to Einsiedeln

Pilgrimage to Mariastein

Platzgen

Playing the alphorn and the Büchel

Poyas

Prayer calls in Central Switzerland

Preserving the Walser identity

Production of mechanical musical automata and music boxes*

Promotions

Pschuuri

Rabadan and carnival in Ticino

Räben lantern procession

Raclette as a social event

Rafting on Lake Aegeri

Ranz des vaches

Reading societies

Regattas on Lake Geneva

Renewable energy – Burgdorf and Mont-Soleil

Roof covering and repairs

Saint Nicholas in Fribourg

San Giuseppe in Laufenburg

Santa Claus traditions in Central Switzerland

Sarganserland alpine blessing

Scheibenschlagen (Disc beating)

Schwingen

Sechseläuten

Secret

Self-government at the autonomous youth centre in Biel/Bienne

Sennensattlerei (Alpine saddlery)

Sgraffito

Shooting tradition

Sign languages

Silk ribbon and ribbon weaving

Silvesterchlausen

Snow sculptures and constructions in La Chaux de Fonds

Solennität Murten

Solothurn Fasnacht

St Gallen Children’s Festival

Stäcklibuebe and the maypoles

Straw weaving in the Freiamt

Street market fairs in the Jura

Swimming in the Rhine

Tale of a poacher

Tavillonnage (shingle-making)

The Brotherhood of St Sebastian

The markets of Huttwil

The Munot traditions

The social practices of All Souls’ Day

The Stoss pilgrimage

The tiny cable cars of Central Switzerland

The worship of martyrs’ relics in Saint-Maurice

Torrée (outdoor barbecue party)

Traditional alpine woodcarving (Senntumschnitzerei)

Traditional fishing machines

Traditions of Alpine cooperatives

Troccas

Tschäggättä

Uhrencup

Unspunnen festival

Urban gardening

Valais-style carillon playing

Velogemel Grindelwald

Vine culture in Schaffhausen

Vogel Gryff

Wässermatten

Watchmaking*

Weidlingsfahren

Whip cracking in Lenzburg

Whitsunday ‒ Pfingstblitter (Pfingstblütter, Pfingstsprützlig)

Wild haymaking in Central Switzerland

Wilhelm Tell and the liberation myths

Wind bands

Winegrowers' Festival in Vevey*

Woldmanndli

Woodcarving in Brienz

Wool processing in Verzasca Valley

Wybermahl in Hettiswil

Youth festivals in Aargau and Solothurn

Zibelemärit

Zurich techno scene

Zurich's silk industry