Midsummer

The festival is primarily any Celtic fire festivity, midsummer representing the middle of summer, and also the shortening from the days on his or her gradual drive to winter. Midsummer is typically celebrated in either your 23rd or 24th of June, although the longest day time actually comes on the Twenty first of 06. The importance of the afternoon to our forebears can be monitored back plenty of decades, and many rock circles and also other ancient monuments tend to be aligned towards the sunrise in Midsummer's Day. By far the most famous positioning is that from Stonehenge, where the sunshine rises on the heel gemstone, framed through the giant trilithons about Midsummer morning.