May Day - Traditional May Day Celebrations - Europe - Sweden

Sweden

The more traditional festivities have moved to the day before, Walpurgis night ("Valborgsmässoafton"), known in some locales as simply "Last of April".

The first of May is instead celebrated as International Workers' Day.

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