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The pyre for the burning the "Boeoegg" is built on the wooden platform erected above the Devil's Bridge, on Monday, 19 April 2021, in the Schoellenen Gorge near Andermatt, Switzerland. The Sechselaeuten (ringing of the six o'clock bells) is a traditional end of winter festival with the burning of the Boeoegg, a symbolic snowman, at 6 pm. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, the festival takes place without the parade of guilds in historical uniforms and not on the Sechselaeutenplatz square in Zurich but in the Schoellenen Gorge of the guest canton Uri. (KEYSTONE/Urs Flueeler)