Terroir and culture
At the Sion market, we don’t!
He presents himself as the most rated in French -speaking Switzerland, deployed on the cobblestones of the old town. He also knows how to compete for the most user -friendly.
The end of the morning is approaching at the Sion market, this Thursday, August 8, the crowd is densified in front of the cages of the Pascal Bagutti market gardener.
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- The Sion market attracts a host of regulars and visitors attracted to its conviviality every Friday.
- Established in the old town, it offers a unique setting to more than 180 stands.
- Local products dominate the offer, from Lake Geneva to Valais specialties.
- But in addition to the raclette, it is also possible to take a little culinary world tour.
There is only one holy figure to blow up an unbearable market in Sion a Friday, which it rains or snows. We had predicted it “extraordinary”, it is already on this one point. “But it really is,” says Jean-Luc Fournier, twenty-one years of stand in old town, and a breath to resell as soon as we start it on his business of numismate.
Why not? In the streets and alleys, the diversity of the offer also makes it extraordinary. So we leave Twint by practical side, including at the market, to palpate the prenumeric age, small currencies and large tickets. “People come – come back the following year if they were vacationers – with their booty. We sell, we buy: it is the contact that prevails. ” And if certain values run out of steam in the face of the abundance of goods, in the tent of the numismatum, nothing is lost, it is also the stand of the D system. Go and say on a website …
After a few hours on her stand in Sion, Yaëlle Heimann often goes back to empty in her micro-boulangerie de Crans Montana.
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On the market, and even more on the cobblestones of Zion in this atmosphere of a circle of expanded friends – policies at the head of the state in the same scrum -, we give its opinion, in real, uncovered. Without depriving yourself of telling from one time to the other what we thought of salads. Or bread. Like these loose family loaves that Yaëlle Heimann contrasts as you go. The stock is exhausted, quickly! It is rare that the baker goes back to Crans Montana, where her father founded Graînes of the futurewith remains. “Every Friday, almost 90 kilos of natural sourdough bread, based on Valais flours or gluten -free proposals that leave with very generous compliments. It’s rewarding, ”she smiles. The proof comes with the next client, determined not to change her habits. And the next one who already salivates at the idea of his Cenovis butter tartine.
Yes! We could have done the pros or against the Swiss dough, more divisive than a federal vote on our links with the European Union, the field, very taste, lent itself, except that it was not the goal. Especially since the market, ran from the seduunois in its early hours, gains in attendance. “Excuse me” and other “forgiveness” mingle with passers-by, competed by some «excuse me»the crowd being as cosmopolitan.
Lake Geneva arrives to Sion
It is 10:30 am. The temperature of a scorching Friday is not the only one to climb in “the state in the state”, dixit its operational manager, Claude Thomas, the ambient volume also rises: it is a party day for street musicians who take advantage of the exception of the market.
Fabien Jacquier had good news on August 8.
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Appetite? He loses his habits. The smokings have no schedule, escaped from a real gastronomic atlas, ready to make competition play. And … We are always struggling to chat with the fisherman Fabien Jacquier, in front of his stall, the line continues to fill. It is still the Lake Geneva that arrives until Sion! “So did he have something to offer?” launches a regular. We know the Why Rare, the Féra too. The man of the lake is careful not to shout with miraculous fishing, but he has the respondent.
“It was a bit galley to keep a market lately, but for a week, it’s a little better. We will see over the duration… ”We have especially already seen that its refrigerated windows have emptied without any other bait than the call of the premises. “This is why I come every Friday, the merchants know us, they know what we like and, underlines a resident, the products come from here.”
Valais to words
Contractors can be agitated! Sion treats his “extraordinary” allergic to imported chinoiseries and other plastic trinkets without interest. Well… We still spotted a keychain display very far from a Valais label or this craft know-how which is the pride of the 180 to 190 stands. “The requests are pressing for each edition made of three quarters of faithful. But we only replace when there are patients or vacation and according to our rules. We don’t want a Natel shell stand, CLAUDE Thomas. Here, in addition to living together, it is the crafts that we favor. ”
Manuella Thurre creates cards for various occasions.
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Products from the earth from those extracted from its essences. Of the mesh that knits the originality to the metal worked in jewelry. From artisanal cutle to tailor-made lampshades. Or these cards Of vows imagined by Manuella Thurre, the more observant, participative than mercantile soul. “The Sion market? It’s a bit like stroll Italian … But at Valaisanne, she exclaims. There are morning buyers, regulars. Those who come for the aperitif. Those who came for that and who forget to go dinner. We know each other, we end up knowing each other! For years, we greeted ourselves with a gentleman who was passing in front of my stand telling me that he did not write cards. One day, he bought one for the 20 years of his son. We cannot change the world, but if someone takes the time to write to a person who takes that of reading it, it is time taken on the march of the world. ”
The conviviality also owes a lot to the framework of the Sion market, in old town, terraces and cafes throughout the route.
Sion market
Yes, the extraordinary is also a poet at the Sion market! You just have to eye between the tomato crates and the bouquets of aromatic herbs from the Pascal Bagutti market gardener, humor is also cultivated. As with his neighbor, Marcel Délèze, researcher of‘”Mountain gold” that he sifts in particular as a liquor with sponsor flowers. But one of the last ones arrived on the market two years ago – the time to have sufficient production – also sows good words in the decor. “Valais cannot be told, it is lived,” reads a plate, it is for sale … 20 francs, a price that is worth it just for the slogan.
Sion, old town, every Friday (unless otherwise reviewed), from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. www.mvvsion.ch/
In Sion, always, exhibitions and concerts
Art To see the landscape, appointment-also-at the Valais art museum which turns the notion of space in all directions. Geographical. Policy. Poetic. Without ever losing sight of Valais or the richness of its collections! The route leads from one stage to another, very gestural visions of the landscape by Gottfried Tritten to a reflection on the female presence in the alpine space. We are a little in hiking mode, sensations and disorders included with Magali Dougoud, in a guide along a tragi-magic “Bisse des Dissidents”, or Vivian Sueter who invites to wander between the painted tissues of “Moving Nature”. And as in nature, you have to have your eyes everywhere.
Photography Going to the Fellini Foundation has nothing of the detour, it is a world first who awaits the visitor with the presentation of the German Their Östlund. Plateau and fashion photographer, the German had so far reserved his aesthetic breath and his sense of the strange to the frozen papers of “Vogue”, “Harper’s Bazaar”, “Elle” or “Grazia”. A whole world that reinvents itself with each catch and that the exhibition “obscura” scrolls.
Musique Yes the Sion Festival plays its opening this weekend of August 16 and 17, launched in a concert marathon, it does not decrease the cadence with the rest of the program until August 31. On the weekend of August 23 and 24, he notably announced to throw a bridge between Brazil and Europe with the young set Illumina. As of August 26, its districts taken in the new concert hall of the city, BCVS stainplace in the fashion show (Janine Jansen, Martin Fröst, Ekaterina Shelehova) and the Tibor Varga competition final. Once the last note of the festival was played, the music will not leave the Valais capital, host of the 22e SchubertiadeSeptember 6 and 7.
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