How to use the video This video for social media shows a traditional Lucia procession. The video is in 9:16 format and is suitable for Instagram and Facebook stories or reels.
Video Download video (MP4 57 MB) Video with piano music Captions Today is Lucia – one of the most beloved Swedish traditions! 😍
At the heart of it is Lucia, the bearer of light in the Swedish winter darkness. 🕯️
Her head crowned with a wreath with candles – real ones or battery-powered – Lucia leads a singing procession of candle-carrying handmaidens and ‘star boys’, all dressed in white gowns. 🤩
On 13 December, the traditional Lucia songs can be heard in countless corners of the country – at schools, workplaces and in church. 🎶
The Lucia celebration also includes gingerbread biscuits and sweet, saffron-flavoured buns shaped like curled-up cats and with raisin eyes. Often served with Swedish mulled wine (‘glögg’) or coffee. ☕
The Lucia tradition can be traced back both to the martyr St Lucia of Syracuse, who died in 304, and to the Swedish legend of Lucia as Adam’s first wife.
Credit: Johan Helmer/imagebank.sweden.se
Music: Epidemic sound
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