Click and drag image
Panoramas are best in Full Screen
CLICK THE FULLSCREEN BUTTON

Midsummer in Sweden.

Midsummer eve at Skansen.

June 24, 2011

The midsummer is celebrated very different in the Nordic countries.

While Denmark and Norway is celebrating with bonfires, Sweden has another tradition.

At midsummer eve which since 1953 is celebrated on the friday between 19 June and 26 June the Swedes raise and dance around a maypole (majstång or midsommarstång)

The maypole is covered with greens and flowers.

The tradition is like the bonfirers in Denmark and many other places in Europe a very old tradition and the first mention of the maypole is from the middle ages.

The panorama is from the celebration at Skansen, the outdoor museum in Stockholm which is said to be the oldest outdoor museum in the world..

Midsummer in Denmark panorama

Midsummer celebrations Wikipedia

Skansen

PHOTOGRAPHER:

Jann is a professional photographer who lives in Stockholm.

Important info about Copyright:
All panoramas featured at panoramas.dk are copyright the individual photographers. Linking directly to the movies Quicktime or Flash is strictly forbidden. If you which to use any of the panoramas for any purpose, commercial or editorial you are requested to contact the photographer who has the copyright and is listed on all fullscreen pages.

Links to panoramas.dk are welcome. You are allowed linking directly to the panoramapages using a small screenshot as long as it is used directly as a link or associated with a link . Please also provide the name of the photographer and a link to the homepage www.panoramas.dk