Midsummers eve is the day before Midsummers day (the actual holiday) and is probably the second to or equal to Christmas when it comes to the most celebrated holidays in Sweden. Its a common belief that amongs swedes that midsummer is a heden tradition that has been celebrated way before swedes became christian. Still there are no proof of this and instead most evidence point to a Christian holiday celebrating John the Babtist. But swedes never adopted to the christian way of celebrating the holiday. A Bishop in the year 1555 wrote that on John the baptist day people of all ages and gender where out on the squares and fields dancing in the light of bon fires. Many have specultated that Midsummers eve and midsummers day is a celebration of the summer solstace or in tribute to the sun but there are no sources to confirm this to be true.
This is the idyllic place to celebrate midsummers eve, In the swedish country side with old wooden houses and a midsummers eve pole in the middle of a field with enough room to dance around it.
How to celebrate Swedish Midsummer's Eve 