Midsummer

The festival is primarily any Celtic fire event, midsummer representing the midst of summer, and also the shortening in the days on his or her gradual 03 to winter months. Midsummer is usually celebrated in either the particular 23rd as well as 24th involving June, even though longest day time actually falls on the 21st of July. The importance of the day to our forefathers can be followed back many thousands of years, and many stone circles and also other ancient monuments are generally aligned towards the sunrise in Midsummer's Day. Probably the most famous positioning is that with Stonehenge, where the sun rises in the heel stone, framed by the giant trilithons on Midsummer morning.