Swiss Holiday Day

Before the tourism industry, gathered under the theme of the “sacred fire”, Alain Berset recalls that the Swiss rejected more holidays two years earlier. He tells of Queen Victoria being carried up the Rigi in a sedan chair in 1868.

The substance: the list of Switzerland’s living traditions, from the Fête des Vignerons to Hornussen and the Tschäggättä, and the line between authenticity and kitsch. “Keep it real!”

Speeches on this site

• Journée suisse des vacances 2013 (French-language page)

Sources

• Federal Council, speech of 28.05.2013