Zunfthaus zur Zimmerleuten

This guide to Zunfthaus zur Zimmerleuten in Zurich opens under its stone arcades on Easter Monday, where a child holds up a hard-boiled egg and an adult flicks a coin at it, a duel called Zwaenzgerle that Zurich children have played here for generations. It traces the custom back to a visitor's account from 1909, when the coin was worth far less and the game went by another name, before it faded and was revived along these arcades decades later. Along the way it follows the guild hall itself, raised by carpenters, masons and coopers in the thirteen hundreds and rebuilt after a fire tore through it in 2007.