Onion Market

Bern, November 22, 2010

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Every year on the fourth Monday of November, Bern goes onion mad when it hosts the Zibele-Märit (Onion Market) selling onions of all sorts and sizes, plaited strings, sculptures. At about 4pm, the confetti battle begins.

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Bern’s onion market

This content was published on Nov 23, 2006 The ‘Zibelemärit’ or onion market attracts crowds of people to the Swiss capital every year. swissinfo.ch visited a farming family preparing their stand at the market. (Michele Andina, swissinfo.ch)

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