Are your ready for charms of the shortest night of the year?

Тraditional festivities according ancient customs will be held in many towns and countryside places all over Lithuania. However we would recommend to visit two traditional  places for Midsummer celebration: Verkiai park in Vilnius on 22nd of June and Kernave on 23rd of June.

"Rasos" (Joninės) Festival in Verkiai Regional Park on 22nd June

Event starts at 19.00

"Joninės" Festival is held in Verkių Park according to the ancient Lithuanian customs that have been preserved by the old people of Lithuania. At the festival of thriving nature wreaths will be twined, fortunes will be told from grasses, Midsummer Day rounds will be danced, old rituals will be performed, wreaths will be floated down the Neris River, people will look for a magic fern blossom, wash with dew, will greet the rising sun with songs. Well-known folklore ensembles will present their programmes. Most of the participants in the festival usually arrive dressed in national costumes and wearing grass wreaths.

More information: www.pavilniai-verkiai.lt

"Rasos" (Joninės) Festival in Kernavė on 23rd June

Event starts: 18:30

"Rasos" (Midsummer) Festival is held in Cultural Reserve of Kernavė according to the ancient Lithuanian customs that have been preserved by the old people of Lithuania. At the festival of thriving nature wreaths will be twined, fortunes will be told from grasses, Midsummer Day rounds will be danced, old rituals will be performed, wreaths will be floated down the Neris River, people will look for a magic fern blossom, wash with dew, will greet the rising sun with songs. Well-known folklore ensembles will present their programmes. Most of the participants in the festival usually arrive dressed in national costumes and wearing grass wreaths.

More information: www.kernave.org