Today I’ll be celebrating Midsummer, the most important festivity in all Scandinavia. It’s just about being the longest day, and Swedes basically go to some place with water and nature. Let’s see how it is. 🙂
Yesterday was the Swedish National Day, which is a brand new festivity in Sweden. It’s the second year that they celebrate it, and therefore there is no tradition in it. Before, being the national day, it was the national flag day, and therefore everything is blue and yellow. It’s quite funny to have such colours in the flag for these kind of events.
Does anything specially attract your attention in this picture? Probably, the similarity of the different flags, belonging to Finland, Denmark, Estonia (this is different), Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Europe (also different) and Ã…land. I have been asking myself the reason of this, and even asked some locals whitout any success. At the beginning I thought all of them would be based in the Swedish Flag, as all Scandinavia was ruled once under Sweden, but I was wrong.
It seems that all flags are inspired in the Dannebrog, the danish flag, which is considered the oldest flag in the world, with records back to the 14th Century.
Interesting, isn’t it? =)
