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Pg. 27 says Carnival sweeps through the Catholic cantons in February, & mentions that you can catch it in Basel. The problem with that statement is that Basel's celebration is, first & foremost, Protestant, not Catholic. That's what sets it apart from all of the others. Not only should a well-established company like theirs know this, they also have a writer living there, & they still got it wrong.