Christmas Eve celebration How to use this material This post for social media is about Sweden celebrating Christmas on 24 December. You can use it to wish your followers Happy Holidays.
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Captions Time to wish you all a Merry Christmas – or as we say in Sweden, 'God jul'! ❤🎅
Did you know that Sweden, along with a handful of other countries, celebrates Christmas on 24 December? 🎄
How come? In Sweden, several holidays are celebrated on the eve of the holiday. So Christmas for us is on Christmas Eve, Midsummer is on Midsummer's Eve, and so on. One explanation is that historically, we used to count the sunset as the end of one day and the start of another, not midnight. According to this logic, 25 December started on the eve of what is now 24 December. 🌇 🤷
Regardless of when, how or where you celebrate Christmas – or if you don't celebrate at all – we would like to wish you Happy Holidays! 🎁 🥰
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