I created a Swiss map with a symbol for each canton ! (feedback welcome, also don’t hesitate to tell me if another symbol would match your canton better! )

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  2. The sun works for us, and I suppose is better than the image of a 20km long traffic jam around Lugano.

  22. That’s very nice and unusual 🙂 would you mind make a list which explain each symbol? I’m not sure I get all of them…

  29. I like it but I needed time to realize it is the Böögg (and I was born and raised in Zurich). But maybe I still was in my non-coffee-brain-phase of the day 😅

  31. I like it, it’s pretty cool.

    For Vaud I think a cabbage AOP sausage would be nice (or Chillon, but it’s already the symbol in the passport). That’s the thing I usually bring back with me when I go there.

  33. Here’s a lis of all the symbols, in a left-to-right inspired order:

    Geneva : l’Escalade, representing a celebration of the failed attempt by the Duchy of Savoy to invade Geneva. According to the legend, a lady, la Mère Royaume, poured boiling hot soup on them. Nowadays you can buy little chocolate cauldrons filled with sweets 🙂

    Vaud : the international olympic comittee. I’d made a try with the Lausanne Cathedral as well but it seems I’m not that gifted with rendering buildings

    Fribourg : Fribourg has a lot to offer, really. It’s a relatively rural canton and there are a lot of cows, so it seemed fitting.

    Neuchâtel : the watches. The canton of Neuchâtel is famous for its horlogerie

    Jura : the Marché-Concours. It’s a really famous event in the canton with races and equestrian competition. The village is filled with stalls where you can buy food, handicraft etc. One of the most impressive races is the one with Roman chariots

    Berne : the Palais Fédéral

    Solothurn : the number 11, although as mentioned by someone it represents the city more than the canton

    Valais : the Matterhorn

    Basel : the Carnival

    Aargau : it’s a generic castle that represents the many many castles that Aargau is famous for

    Luzern : the Kapellbrücke

    Obwald und Nidwald : Saint Nicholas of Flüe, or brother Klaus. He’s an important Saint for Switzerland historically.

    Uri : the Tüüfelstei. The legent, shortly, says that the people from Uri needed a bridge over the Reuss but couldn’t build it, so they made a pact with the devil. He would build it for them, but in exchange, the first soul that was to pass on the bridge would belong to him. But the Urner tricked him by sending not a human first to cross the bridge, but a goat. Furious, he took a huge stone in the hopes of destroying that bridge he built, but an old lady drew a cross on it and he couldn’t manage to carry the stone all the way up. The stone still lies where the devil dropped it.

    Ticino : the sun (cliché i know)

    Schaffhausen : it’s a 16th century fortification called the Munot.

    Zurich : the Böögg, representing Sächsilüüt, the celebration that ends the winter. At 6 in the evening (hence the name Sächsilüüt), we burn the Böög. The duration it takes for its head to explode is predicting how good the summer will be.

    Zug : it was blockchain, but i’ve received a lot of ideas so it will probably be changed soon

    Schwyz : Einsiedeln

    Glarus : the Glarner Schabziger, it’s a pretty famous local cheese that has a conic shape and a greenish color

    Thurgau : the canton is a big producer of fruits in Switzerland

    Appenzell : the famous three guys from the ad for the cheese

    St-Gall : a dress, representing the textile industry in the canton

    Graubünden : the ibex

  35. Hey, Vaudois here, can we please be associated with anything else than corrupt CIO?
    Don’t have a good suggestion though…

  40. nice!
    for Basel it would be better to use a symbol of a traditional Waggis for the carnival. Mask with a big nose and hair similar to tingletanglebob

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