Argentina - The longest night of the World

In the most extreme of the continental world, nature offers a unique spectacle, in which an almost eternal night and announces the colors unpublished onset of winter. The city of Ushuaia, in the remote Tierra del Fuego, this event celebrates not only emphasizes the cold and darkness of this season, but marks the beginning of the journey to the days full of light.

This celebration is undoubtedly the most awaited by Fueguians. 20 and June 21, shows, gastronomic tours, bonfires and ancient ritual, homage to a night that begins at 16:30 and ends at 9.30 the other day.

The longest night of the world was recognized as a national holiday in 1986, but held since the 70s. Each year, activities are more diversified and headquarters. In this edition, opened its doors on Esther Fadul Cultural Center, Casa de la Cultura, the Antigua Casa Drink, Paseo de las Rosas, the School Kayu Chen, Beagle Center and the Laguna del Diablo. Besides joining the festival several restaurants offering a special menu, pubs and Boutique Book, the Museum of the End of the World, Maritime Museum and other agencies. There will be concerts, workshops, plays, tours, ice skating, an ice slide and hot chocolate.

Also starting this year will be carried out one of the most ancient rituals of the magical world: the ritual burning of barriers or impediments. Different cultures in the world meet this ritual at different times year, but all they do so with the same purpose: to alleviate problems or complicate the challenges that we achieve our goals. Each sistente must write in advance a sheet and file their own obstacles in the polls especially willing or dropped directly into the bonfire. This represents the destruction or defeat of the impairments.

Why is the longest night?
Makes our planet a translatory movement around the sun along one years, during which there are four stations, which are caused by the natural inclination of the Earth, which makes an angle of 23.5 ° with the plane of the ecliptic, and because of this, the sun's rays arrive with different obliquity in the Southern Hemisphere or North for the same latitude. At the same time is seen that the length of day and night, is different in the winter and summer. Due to the shape of our planet, it receives more solar radiation near the equator, which is not happening at the poles. Each time one of the poles pointing directly to the Sun is the summer solstice. And, in contrast, at the other pole is the winter solstice, as happens every 20 to June 21 in Tierra del Fuego. The word "solstice" comes from Latin and means "sun stop", which corresponds to time when our star is in one of the tropics.

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