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Published on 25 March 2025

Traditions that shape identities

In Evolène, a village in the Val d’Hérens (Herens Valley), there are no apologies for traditions: they are lived to the full. No one questions the tradition of carnival as it continues to pass from one generation to the next, as it always has.

Two people in hay-stuffed costumes with masks, one wearing a horned monster head, parade through a snowy street in an Alpine village.