Celebrating Christmas in Norway signifies to live one of the fascinating and most emotional festivals that never you thought to live. For the locals signifies the end of the endless nights of winter solstice and the arrival of the spring. Nevertheless, the surpluses of snow and the climate that begins to gestate around the first s days of December do of Norway a magical place where to celebrate this so important date.
Just as the remaining northern countries do him (we saw the case of Sweden) all the 13 of December arrives the Saint that brings light and peace to the towns: Holy Lucìa. The processions do not delay in being formed and as opposed to Sweden, here a chosen youth you were seen of white and heads the procession with a large candle and beautifully decorated in its hand illuminating the city.
The advent time call ”“ covers the fours previous Sundays to Christmas Eve. It is tradition noreuga to place a candelabra of four arms to go lighting a candle each Sunday of Advent, until on Christmas Eve night all the candles remain you lit.
It is custom Norway to decorate the arbolitos of Christmas just as do it everywhere: days before the Christmas Eve, with the difference that the lucesitas of the same one light them the same night of the 24 for December 25. Also we will be able to note, if we visit the country in this epoch, that the arrangements abound Christmas facts with candles. It is that the families devise its own decorations and inclusive many are dedicated for sale of beautiful candles, the same that will utilize in the Easter.
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