Ariadne fearing that her betrothed would be killed by the animal gave Theseus a ball of string which he unwound as he ventured deeper into the labyrinth.
The legend says that Theseus went into the labyrinth to win the hand of the fair Ariadne, who had asked him to slay the beast to prove his love. This year, the theme is more traditional with visitors being transported back to ancient Greece where the passion for labyrinths began.Īt the maze entrance, visitors are greeted by three wooden boards which tell them about the myth of Theseus, the brave Greek hero, who killed an evil maze-dwelling minotaur on the island of Crete. Last year visitors went on a sensory journey tasting, smelling, seeing, hearing and feeling their way along its paths. "We contacted the GPS firm and they programmed my design into their system and then bounced it off a satellite to the cutting machine which cut out our maze pattern here in Muri." Each year the maze has a theme. "My husband knew about Global Positioning System technology (GPS) and he thought it must be possible to cut out the maize maze with this system," says Iris Frey. The task of cutting out the intricate pattern from the maize field is left to her husband, Lukas Frey, who uses state-of-the-art satellite technology to carve out neat and even paths in the maze. During the winter, she pours over the details of where paths should lead and how many dead ends should be included. The farming duo have had the maze for the past three years and each year Iris Frey designs the labyrinth's layout herself.
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"We saw maize mazes in books from the United States and we thought it was a good idea," says Iris Frey, one half of the couple who own and run the farm, "then we heard about a farm in Germany which had a maize maze and we contacted them to find out how to do it." The maze has a double purpose - it acts as an adventure playground for adults and children in summer and when it comes to the autumn the crop is harvested and fed to the farm's pig herd.
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Muri's maze was the brainchild of a local farming couple who decided to transform one of their fields full of corn into an amazing maize maze. This content was published on Aug07:38 Aug07:38 It joins a list which includes another corn maze in Steffisburg near to Lake Thun and Europe's largest permanent maze in Evionnaz in canton Valais. Switzerland has a new addition to its ever-growing maze family in the shape of a three hectare square corn labyrinth in Muri in canton Aargau.
A minotaur guards the entrance to Muri’s maize maze swissinfo.ch
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