New Years Eve Sweden
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New Year Eve in Sweden is celebrated with great excitement and enthusiasm. New Year Eve in Sweden is celebrated on 1 January.
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In contrast to Christmas, it was mainly a cheerful event for young people. To see off the old year, the citizens of Sweden fired guns or yelled and screamed, or kicked up a row in some other way.
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This is an important event on New Year's Eve. Many concerts and shows are organized on New Year's Eve which is very popular among the people of Sweden as well as the tourists.
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Many peoples gather at the Skansen open-air museum in Stockholm (capital of Sweden), to see the narration of the poem Ring Out, Wide Bells that has been penned by Tennyson (English poet).
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The citizens of Sweden like to spend New Year's Eve with their friends and go all out for this special night, with delicacies such as lobster or oysters. Fireworks, Food, Drinks as well as music are an integral part of the New Years Eve in Sweden. There are many traditions associated with New Year's Eve. People in Sweden tried to foresee the future as they believe the turn of the year a magical time. One way of telling your future was to mould lead in water and then read the figures this produced. Another was to toss shoes. If your shoe landed with the toe pointing towards the door, it meant you would move away or even die during the year. If the sun shone on New Year's Day, a good year could be expected.
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