(TGA) - Is may day celebrated in estonia with festivals or other entertainment or is it ignored?Any info would help,thanks.
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The eve of May 1st is celebrated by many, but especially students and fraternities. It's called witching night and is usually passed with drinking and partying. It's the one night of the year that 'civilians' are welcome to enter a fraternity house, after midnight, as long as they are wearing a necktie (girls excepted). The following day (still May 1t) is a public holiday like in the rest of Europe, and is moderately celebrated, in Estonia it's the first day of spring.
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May 1st is definitely a holiday (many places closed) and the drinking and partying the night before is not confined to the frat houses or individual homes. The alleyway behind my apartment in Tallinn had alot of activity as well. Lots of empties the next day including a huge bottle of Jagermeister.
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Correction – the night we dress up as witches and go out is the evening of the 30th of April and then 1st of May is a free day for everyone. It's usually a great time. It's just starting to get warm and there's many fires or fire spectacles int he evening of 30th, especially in Tartu as that date very often (if not always) falls into the period of the student days. Tallinn doesn't celebrate it as well as Tartu ;)
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