So, today is Saint Lucia’s Day, celebrated all over Scandinavia and by scandinavian-americans in USA. The tradition has both christian and pre-christian roots and the celebration marks the return of the light. \/source: This is Scandinavia<\/em><\/p>\n St. Lucia’s Day is not an official\u00a0holiday in Sweden<\/a>, it is a popular occasion in Sweden. The evening and night before (so called ”Lusse-vigil”) The Lucia Day is a notoriously noisy time.\u00a0High school<\/a>\u00a0students often celebrate by partying all through the night. At many universities, students hold big formal dinner parties since this is the last chance to celebrate together before most students go home to their families for Christmas.<\/p>\n The Swedish lyrics to the\u00a0Neapolitan<\/a>\u00a0song\u00a0Santa Lucia<\/a><\/em>\u00a0have traditionally been either\u00a0Natten g\u00e5r tunga fj\u00e4t<\/em>\u00a0(The Night walks with heavy steps<\/em>) or\u00a0Santa Lucia, ljusklara h\u00e4gring<\/em>\u00a0(Saint Lucy, bright mirage<\/em>). There is also a modern version with simpler lyrics for children:\u00a0Ute \u00e4r m\u00f6rkt och kallt (Outside it’s dark and cold)<\/em>. Source\/ Wikipedia.<\/em><\/p>\n A typical sweet Lucia !<\/p>\n I saw our Swedish Filippa Lagerback<\/strong> of course were also a Lucia back in the days…. now living in Italy since she was 19…<\/em><\/p>\n Swedish Lucia<\/strong> voting in 1987, I think ( at least it says it back on the pic) Can you believe its my cousin Ulrika<\/strong> on the right..hihihi…and a friend from Umea Annika<\/strong> Davidsson<\/strong> on the left. I think Annika\u00a0WON<\/strong> that year to become the Swedish Lucia<\/strong>… for sure she won, Miss World Sweden<\/strong> in 1988 :)) !!!<\/p>\n ” Annika remind me if Im wrong about the year…hihihi ”<\/p>\n GLAD SANKTA LUCIA TILL ALLA I SVERIGE !!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I went up 8 to see on the Swedish television our lovely tradition of Lucia….ahhhaa. Every 13th of december when I was little my mother and I sneaked up early in the morning and went to friends of ours and sang Lucia and Christmas songs. As I got older, I sang for old people in … L\u00e4s mer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sverige-sweden-svezia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogg.improveme.se\/veronicajonsson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogg.improveme.se\/veronicajonsson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogg.improveme.se\/veronicajonsson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogg.improveme.se\/veronicajonsson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogg.improveme.se\/veronicajonsson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogg.improveme.se\/veronicajonsson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogg.improveme.se\/veronicajonsson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogg.improveme.se\/veronicajonsson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogg.improveme.se\/veronicajonsson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blogg.improveme.se\/veronicajonsson\/files\/2012\/12\/GetAttachment.jpg\")
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