Sechseläutenplatz

This guide to Sechselautenplatz in Zurich follows Francois Guex, an art historian from the Tailors guild who has spent about twenty years commentating on the Sechselauten festival for Swiss television without ever marching in it himself. It traces the square's 2014 rebuild in Vals quartzite, the medieval guild brotherhoods that still parade and burn the firecracker-stuffed Boogg each spring, and the long-standing rule that shut women out of full membership. Stand where Guex has stood for two decades, describing a procession he was never part of.