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In Sweden, Midsummer day is a Saturday between 20 June and 26 June, but as is usual in Sweden the actual celebration is on the eve, i.e. a Friday between 19 June and 25 June. Midsummer's Eve is a de facto public holiday in Sweden with offices and many shops closed. [75]
National Day of Sweden: Sveriges nationaldag: 6 June: Midsummer's Day: Midsommardagen: Saturday during the period 20–26 June: 22 June 2024 21 June 2025 20 June 2026 All Saints' Day: Alla helgons dag: Saturday during the period 31 October – 6 November: 2 November 2024 1 November 2025 31 October 2026 Christmas Day: Juldagen: 25 December ...
The celebration of this day begun as the Day of the Swedish Flag, ca 1900, and the day is chosen in commemoration of the election of Gustav Vasa as King of Sweden on this date in 1523. The second most important festivity in the Swedish calendar, or perhaps for many the most important, is Midsummer, midsommar. Midsummer's Eve is celebrated on ...
This year, it falls on June 21, but in many places around Sweden festivities are held during the whole Midsummer weekend. Traditional midsummer celebrations take place at Skansen, the world's ...
In Sweden, the Midsummer Eve celebration is tied to the solstice, always being held on the Friday that lands anywhere from June 19 to June 25. Maypoles, folk dancing and romantic rituals are the ...
NYC Midsummer or Swedish Midsummer is a Swedish midsummer celebration organized since 1996 in one of New York City's parks on the Friday afternoon close to the June solstice, or St John's Day. For several years now, Battery Park City in lower Manhattan has hosted this event. A sizable portion of the Swedish expatriate community in NYC shows up ...
Several months later, Christian and his friends Mark and Josh have been invited by their Swedish friend Pelle to attend a nine-day midsummer festival at his ancestral commune, the Hårga, in the rural Hälsingland region of Sweden. The festival occurs only once every 90 years.
Join the Midsummer festivities in Sweden on a fly-drive break ... Visit some of Canada’s biggest cities with days spent exploring its vast national parks on this 15-day Canada’s Eastern ...