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The steps of married life in Appenzell

In Appenzell people have a traditional festivity, the Alpstobete where they get together on a mountain to dance and have a good time. They also dance the Hierig, in which a couple enacts different phases of married life. (Raffaella Rossello, swissinfo.ch)



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