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Local Traditions & Customs
Celtic celebrations
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few million Irishmen, Scotsmen, Welshmen, Bretons and Galicians
are today the remaining living decendants of the Celts, who
inhabited the majority of Europe 2000 years ago. Around 500
B.C. nowadays Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Switzerland,
South Germany, two thirds of France, the north of Spain and
the eastern corner of England were all inhabited by Celts.
From there they began their long migration to the west, where
they survived until today on the western islands and peninsulas
of our continent.
In the rest of the continent they became gradually displaced,
first in the third century A.D. by Teutonic invasions, and
then later by other migrating tribes.
This small historical background may help us understand properly
their rich folklore, beautiful music and enthusiastic dances
(such as ‘the river dance’).
The Celts survive today in areas, where a thousands years
older culture has left its indelible traces in the form of
mysterious ceremonial stone arrangements made of ‘dolmen’
and ‘menhirs’. The most famous of these places
are Stonehenge in England and Carnac in Brittany.
You too can tread the traces of our mystic past and sink for
a few happy hours into the whirl of celebration. You can find
the best way to do this on our web site!
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