19 fevereiro 2017

Zürich has a singularly violent way to welcome summer: They...



Zürich has a singularly violent way to welcome summer: They roast a snowman until its head explodes. At the spring holiday Sechseläuten, traditionally celebrated on the third Monday in April, residents build an effigy of winter in the shape of a giant snowman known as the Böögg, pack it with explosives, and set it afire.

The shortest time on record is 5 minutes 7 seconds, in 1974. The longest, just last year, is 43 minutes 34 seconds.

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