A lightful day

Saint Lucy's day concert (Globen Luciakonsert)

At dawn on 13th December in Sweden thousands of young girls, dressed in white gowns, holding a lit candle and with a crown of electric candles on a wreath on their heads, bring light to the darkness of Swedish winter.

This is the "Lucia Festival", a 400 year-old tradition, played out in churches, schools, hospitals and workplaces around the country. Saint Lucy's day is so important that Christmas would not be Christmas in Scandinavia without it.