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The Bonnet Rouge is a coffee, an art gallery, and it is at the same a very old house of the middle age city of Gruyères:

The name of the "Cafe - Art Gallery" Bonnet Rouge (Red hats) comes from a legend of Gruyères:

Long, long ago, in ancient times, before cowled and robed monks traipsed through the countryside to preach Christianity, the wild mountain valleys were uninhabited and the flatlands in the lower Sarine valley were scattered with farmsteads where farming families cared for their livestock, tended their fields and lived peacefully.
There were times when days were too short to complete the work that had to be done, particularly during hay-making and harvesting. When that happened, every farmstead could rely on an invisible helper, a benevolent goblin. These helpful goblins were known as "bounet rodzo" or "redhoods". Farmers and redhoods got on very well together. The redhoods weren't exacting, they were content with a saucer of cream skimmed off the milk, a bowl of stewed fruit or a choice morsel or two. They were respected and appreciated and that was all they expected.

When the Christian monks appeared, preaching the Gospel and the belief in only one God, they added that those who believed in pagan spirits would go to Hell. They may well have been jealous because the redhoods got the best handouts from the farmers but they were also convincing. Finally, the Christian faith prevailed and the redhoods were ungratefully banished to the wild, uninhabited mountain valleys. Heavy-hearted, but philosophical, they left.

They settled up there and created the beautiful rock gardens with mountain flowers and medicinal plants but time was heavy on their hands so they invented a great game called "stone-throwing". They had plenty of stones and rocks to throw and threw them wherever they liked. The rich summer pasture lands in the upper reaches of the valley were soon peppered with stones, practically useless. Farmers had the hard task of clearing them up every Spring to enable the grass to grow enough to feed the cattle.

The redhoods still enjoy their great game to this day but farmers now need government subsidies to help maintain their mountain pastures and prevent landslides or similar disasters.