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The Ways They Celebrate Midsummer in Europe - Neatorama

This Sunday is Father's Day, but it's also the summer solstice, with the longest daylight of the year. Weather holidays were never a big thing in tropical climates, and the US is partly tropical and made up of a mixture of cultures. But in European countries where warm weather is a treat, many ancient festivals revolve around the annual movement of the sun. Midsummer is the most joyous -and longest- of those celebrations. When Christianity reached those northern areas, such festivals were rename