Photos – crowds gather at Stonehenge for the first solstice celebration since 2019:
People gather for sunrise at Stonehenge on June 21, 2022, in Wiltshire, England. The summer solstice occurs on June 21. It is the longest day and shortest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. The 2022 summer solstice arrives at 5:14 a.m.
Stonehenge was swamped with flamboyantly dressed New Age revelers and modern-day druids and pagans Tuesday morning awaiting the solstice. It was the first time the celebration was permitted to take place since 2019 due to COVID-19 restrictions. The 2020 and 2021 solstice sunrise streamed online. The summer solstice officially began in the U.K. at 5:14 a.m. shortly after the sunrise. The event marks the longest day and the shortest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.
Wiltshire Police said that the crowd was about 6,000 strong at the ancient stone monument in southern England, and that the environment was "convivial," The Associated Press reported.On the solstice, the sun rises behind Stonehenge's Heel Stone, casting rays of sunlight into the center of the monument's stones. It was built between 5,000 and 3,500 years ago by a sun-worshipping Neolithic culture in southwest England, and it's purpose is still debated.
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