Number
2 to 4 people
Price
From CHF 37
Duration
2 to 3 hours
Weekdays
Tuesday to Saturday
Picnic with style and enjoyment
The St.Gallen-Lake Constance region offers countless opportunities for a delicious picnic, aperitif or brunch in the open air: in the secluded St.Gallen City Park, on the shores of Lake Constance in Rorschach and Steinach, or in the idyllic nature park of the Nature Museum. With our picnic baskets, you can experience picnicking in a very special way: Culinary delicacies from regional producers, combined with a hand-sewn BIGNIK planket. Look forward to a delicious brunch or an enjoyable snack.
The picnic basket, filled with local specialties, is lovingly prepared for you by various local service providers. Additional delicacies or drinks can be purchased on site.
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Please note the opening hours of the stores for picking up and returning the picnic basket.
The idea behind BIGNIK
With the steadily growing BIGNIK art installation, the conceptual artists Frank and Patrik Riklin from the Atelier für Sonderaufgaben (Studio for Special Works) give picnics a whole new meaning: “Together, they created a huge picnic blanket for the entire population, large enough to cover 100 football pitches, comprised of 293,438 blankets, one for each inhabitant of the region.” This has been the vision of the Riklin brothers who began to develop the idea and the concept for the BIGNIK project six years ago. The blankets are collected with the help of the local residents, sewn together to form modules and laid out once a year as a huge picnic blanket.
To ensure that the BIGNIK blanket remains visible throughout the year, the individual modules are loaned out to the guests of the region. St.Gallen-Bodensee Tourism and Textilland Ostschweiz collected tablecloths, bedsheets and curtains and turned them into blanket modules in front of the St.Gallen Town Hall for two days. These blankets modules can now be reserved online together with a picnic basket– Bon appétit! Or as the Swiss say, En Guätä!
