Rabechilbi Turnip Festival celebrates the end of harvest with turnips in Richterswil, a small town on Lake Zurich in Switzerland, on the second Saturday in November. It is the largest turnip festival in Europe. Before the festival, people of all ages including kids make tones of turnip lanterns with candles inside them. Then on Saturday night all the lights in the village get turned off and the only light comes from candles. The windows, balconies, and stairways of every house are lined with lighted turnip lanterns, turning the whole town into a magical place. During the festival at night, there is a spectacular parade of glittering floats made from thousand of candles and carved root vegetables of different shapes and sizes including famous people, animals, plants, and temples. The festival was entered into the Guinness Book of Records for world-breaking statistics with its number of beautifully carved turnips.
