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Fête de l'Escalade
📍 Geneva, Switzerland📅 Dec 5⏱️ ~4 days
Geneva's most cherished winter celebration, commemorating the city's dramatic 1602 victory over the Duke of Savoy. Torchlit processions in 17th-century costume wind through the old town on the first weekend of December, followed by the breaking of the symbolic marmite (cauldron).
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- Geneva, Switzerland
- Switzerland
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