Gavle goat

The Gävle Goat is a traditional Christmas show erected yearly at Slottstorget in crucial Gavle, Sweden. It is a giant model of a conventional Swedish Yule Goat parent product of straw. It is erected every year at the start of Advent over a duration of days by nearby network groups, and has emerge as well-known for being destroyed in arson assaults throughout December.

Despite security features and the close by presence of a hearth station, the goat has been burned to the ground maximum years due to the fact that its first appearance in 1966. As of December 2017, the goat has been broken 37 times. The Gavle Goat is erected each yr on the primary day of Advent, which in line with Western Christian culture is in overdue November or early December, depending at the calendar yr. In 1966, an advertising and marketing representative, Stig Gavlen, got here up with the concept of making a massive version of the conventional Swedish Yule Goat and setting it within the rectangular. The layout of the primary goat changed into assigned to the then chief of the Gavle fireplace branch, Gavlén's brother Jorgen Gavlen.