2009年10月13日火曜日

Rabechilbi Turnip Festival


I will tell about Rabechilbi Turnip Festival’s history.


This Festival began in 1884.There is a custom of service in Switzerland. Farmer’s women who lived on the hill made turnip’s lamp to light a church to their house in middle of winter.

It is said that Rabechilbi Turnip Festival’ beginning. They told how to make turnip’s lamp. Then it became an annual event in Switzerland.

Recently, women who wear dark color clothes led to churchgoing.