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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.
Prior to 1774, Finland also celebrated a third Christmas Day, the day of apostle John the Evangelist on December 27, and a fourth Christmas Day, Massacre of the Innocents on December 28. [5] However, King Gustav III of Sweden cut them down to two, because the nobility and bourgeoisie believed that long holidays made the workers too lazy. [ 6 ]
Declaration of Christmas Peace at the Old Great Square of Turku in 2009. The oldest event takes place at noon in the Old Great Square of the city of Turku, the oldest town and the former capital of Finland. [5] The Christmas Peace has been declared from the balcony of the Brinkkala Mansion in the Old Great Square since 1886.
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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.
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.