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急求瑞士近年重大事件!要英文!各个方面都可以,娱乐、体育、社会等等,但是要英文!
急求瑞士近年重大事件!要英文!
各个方面都可以,娱乐、体育、社会等等,但是要英文!

急求瑞士近年重大事件!要英文!各个方面都可以,娱乐、体育、社会等等,但是要英文!
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Events
(1)Art Basel 2006
Preparations for Art 37 Basel are in full swing: only one more week until the foremost show for modern and contemporary art opens its doors on June 14.
Never before has the roster of participants been as distinguished and international as this year. Never before have the participating galleries made such great efforts to fire art lovers'' enthusiasm with thrilling masterpieces and new art projects. The works that have been announced promise exciting discoveries and experiences.
Art Basel will also be offering an extensive program of supporting events. For example, at Art Basel Conversations well-known figures from the international art world will be discussing such subjects as Contemporary Philanthropy and Art Collecting in Europe , Artists and Museum Architecture and The Concepts behind Forthcoming Biennales .
The panel talk on The Future of the Museum in the Middle East promises to be a unique and historic occasion.
For the first time, representatives of cultural institutions from Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Iran, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates will be coming together to exchange ideas.
The Art Lobby forum will provide interested visitors with daily opportunities to meet further luminaries of the international art world, and in the evening films by and about artists will be shown at the Stadtkino. Such acclaimed artists as Sharon Lockhart, John Baldessari, and star director Bob Wilson will be in attendance.
The special Artists'' Books exhibition will bring rediscoveries with its presentation of artists'' books from the sixties.
(2) History
The first first fact of Basle is the Rhine, the river that literally put Basle on the World map.
It runs through Basle thus providing coming of goods from Rotterdam.
Starting off as a Swiss mountain stream, the Rhine ends up a major European waterway.
The Romanesque-Gothic cathedral has watched over the Rhine here for centuries, and Basle was the a royal residence (or “Basilia” from the Greek) for the rulers of the Holy Roman Empire.
BasleÂ’s origins go back to the 4th century B.C. Celts, bur there is evidence of even earlier settlement.
In Roman times, the area of Basel was a centre of Roman activity. There are well-preserved remains at the site of Augusta Raurica in the canton of Basel-Landschaft. Around 200 there were about 20,000 people living in this city, now part of the much smaller Augst. The remains are in an open-air museum. The museum attracts over 140,000 visitors year after year. Many of these visitors are schoolchildren from other parts of Switzerland.
The hill where the cathedral (Munster) now stands became a frontier fort for the Romans. Later, the bishop moved his residence from the RomansÂ’ Augusta Raurica (10 km upstream) to Basle. The bishop eventually doubled as secular ruler of this free imperial city: a prince of the realm as well as a prince of the Church.
His was extended from Colmar (Alsace) to the Lake of Bienne in witzerland; the bishopÂ’s staff is preserved in the cantonal coats of arms of both Basle-City and Basle-Countryside, and of Canton Jura as well.
In 1200 A.D. the first city wall enclosed the cathedral and much of today’s Old Town in a half-circle. In 1225, the first bridge spanned the Rhine, and it long remained the only such crossing all the way to the North Sea. Meanwhile, Kleinbasel (“Little Basle”) was developing as a fortified bridgehead on the right bank, and Basle’s citizens received the authority to form their own governing council. This body gradually came to be dominated by the increasingly numerous and powerful guilds, which eventually controlled the administration of the city. Entry into the Swiss Confederation in 1501 created new opportunities for both sides, with Basle enjoying great protection in a turbulent age and the confederation obtaining a valuable opening for trade links and political relations with states to the north. Basle’s new responsibilities included the function of arbitrator within the Confederation, and its behavior helped lay the groundwork for later Swiss neutrality. While managing to avoid political entanglements itself, Basle utilized its delicate “borderline” status to achieve a significant position in Europe economically and culturally, distinguishing itself in the advencement both of knowledge and of humanitarian causes.
The importance of Basle as a European crossroads in the highly religious Middle Ages is reflected in the many churches and cloisters whose spires and courtyards have been a hallmark of the city for centuries. The madieval spirit still lives in BasleÂ’s architecture: the Barfusser church (the largest Franciscan church north of the Alps, highest choir until Cologne); the DominicansÂ’ church; the Carthusian monastery; the churches of St. Leonhard, St. Peter, St. Martin and St. Clara. Between the invitation to the reforming Benedictines (who settled in St. Alban-Tal in 1038) and the Reformation itself in 1529, a wide spectrum of monastic orders established cloisters or way-stations in Basle. Through their contacts with the university, Basle shared in the intellectual and spiritual life of Europe.
The universituÂ’s valuable collection of manuscripts and incunabula is a direct legacy of the famous monastic libraries of Basle.
The cityÂ’s architectural heritage is also enriched by many Pre-Reformation monastic buildings still standing (partly thanks to BasleÂ’s practice of tolerance). Services still held in some of these structures today, and others, such as the Barfusser church now housing the remarkable Historical museum, are put to cultural uses which would doubtless find favor with their original occupants, the monks.
Thanks to the general interest in preservation and appreciation of art at all levels of society, the city today presents a harmonious blend of modern architecture and buildings from the last nine centuries.
(3)Culture and Traditions
The Fasnacht is probably the best-known Basle phenomenon: three days and nights of communal celebration combining ritual and revelry, organized parades and street music with a healthy portion of self-parody and satirical comment on the year gone by. It all starts at 4 a.m. on the Monday following Ash Wednesday, when a sudden hungreds of people come out of their houses and proceed by the streets and alleys of the old town in costumes and with lanterns resembling 19th century political cartoons in color.
This tradition which goes back at least to the medieval mysteries and carnival plays, survives today in a fondness for cabaret and staunch support for Stadttheater (municipal theater) and the Comedy playhouse, where the offerings range from opera, operettas and ballet to classical and modern drama.
At the official parades on Monday and Wednesday afternoon, each carnival society (“Clique”) has a special central theme – elaborated during the past year - for its painted lantrern and costumes, decorated vagons and satirical verses (distributed to spectators along the parade route).
The carnival continues through the night, both in the streets of the old town and in the pubs – where wandering minstrels perform their delightfully irreverent song cycles treating events of the past year.
Just a particular of Basle: only the parade afternoons are considered public holidays; Monday and Wednesday morning find the Basler hard at work while the streets echo with fifes and drums.
Still anyone who took part in BasleÂ’s Fasnacht can see why this city earned a medieval reputation as the merriest bishopic on the Rhine.
There are many other festivals, too.
“Vogel Gryff” is held in the end of winter, when the “wild man”, the “griffen” and the “lion” perform ritual street dances on the other side of the Rhine.
There are numerous neighborhood bazaars organized by various groups, the commemoration of the battle of St. Jakob and der Birs (1444) every five years, and of course the annual Autumn Fair.