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Bern Zibelemärit
Market
Bern's distinctive Onion Market, a centuries-old tradition where the city's main squares fill entirely with onion displays and produce.
23 NOV
Bern, Switzerland
Running since at least the early nineteenth century, Bern's Zibelemärit (Onion Market) transforms the city's historic squares into a sprawling display of onions — braided into elaborate ropes and wreaths, alongside more everyday sacks for sale — a tradition unlike almost anything else on the European festival calendar.
Onion tarts and onion soup are sold throughout the market, and confetti fights break out through the day as part of the tradition's more chaotic side — a genuinely distinctive, single-vegetable festival with centuries of history behind it.
Highlights
- ✓Tradition dates back to the early 19th century
- ✓Onions braided into elaborate displays
Getting In
🆓No ticket required
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