Sweden
15m
Mar 23, 2026
The Night That Doesn't Darken: What Midsummer Really Celebrates Across the World
On the longest day of the year, something happens across the Northern Hemisphere that no calendar notification can prepare you for: the sky refuses to go dark. Midsummer is the oldest festival humanity has ever held — and it turns out that light, when there is finally too much of it, makes people do extraordinary things.