| Location: | Begnins |
| Date: | 27 April |
| The festival begins with children collecting gifts on Sunday morning as they go singing from door to door. The gifts include eggs, sugar and flour   – the necessary ingredients to make traditional pastries. In the afternoon, flowers are gathered to weave a crown for the May Queen and King – two seven-year-olds, chosen by drawing lots. They are solemnly crowned and then lead a procession complete with band through the village streets. The usual festivities include games and entertainments and end with a release of balloons. Although this tradition has lost some of its ritual, it is still practiced, much to the delight of local children, in Begnins and other villages in the canton. | |
