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Father Christmas at the 2021 Christmas Parade in Helsinki, Finland. Helsinki: Helsinki Christmas Parade. Held annually in late November since 1949, as part of the Opening of the Aleksanterinkatu Christmas Street festivities.
A rocket ship float with Santa Claus during a Christmas parade in Los Angeles, 1940. The Christmas parade is a direct descendant of late Medieval and Renaissance revivals of Roman Triumphs, which had music and banners, wagons filled with the spoils of war, and climaxed with the dux riding in a chariot, preferably drawn by two horses, and thus called the biga.
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Charm City is filled with plenty of holiday charm, especially during this annual Christmas parade! It features floats, local TV and radio personalities, over 100 Harley Davidson motorcycles, bands ...
Dahlia parade in Zundert always held on the first Sunday in September; Days of '47 Parade in Salt Lake City; Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade; Dragon of Shandon Samhain parade in Cork, held annually on the 31st of October at night; Easter parade; Gasparilla Pirate Festival in Tampa is the third largest parade in the US and commemorates a ...
A Finnish Father Christmas. The Finnish Christmas has acquired some characteristics from the harvest festival kekri, that used to take place around the old All Saints' Day. In Sweden, Estonia and Finland, joulupukki (Christmas goat) was a man who dressed as a fertility rite character, a goat.
Christmas Eve and Midsummer Eve might very well be the single most important holidays during the entire year for Finns. Surprisingly they are not officially called holidays and are not so marked in calendars, but for most people, are not working days, and in practice they differ from official holidays only in that most shops are open on those days from early morning till noon.
And the annual Children’s Electric Christmas Parade is an evening ordeal. It starts at 6:30 p.m. (rain or shine) Saturday, Dec. 2 and features a parade of twinkling light.