“Muni Max”, the symbol of the 2025 Swiss Wrestling and Alpine Festival, is huge – as is the controversy around his move to a neighbouring canton. The Swiss Wrestling and Alpine Festival takes place every three years. The symbol of the most recent event, which was held at the end of August in Mollis in canton Glarus, eastern Switzerland, was therefore intended to be correspondingly impressive. The bull – known as a Muni in wrestling jargon – exceeded all expectations: 21 metres in height, 36 metres in length, around ten metres in width and weighing in at 182 tonnes. It became a major attraction even during its construction. Some 220 companies and around 500 wood-making apprentices from eastern Switzerland were involved in the construction, which consists of more than 1,200 cubic metres of Swiss timber and 437 prefabricated parts connected by almost 19,000 screws. But enough of the numbers. According to the organisers, the highly symbolic work of art should express the perfect ...
