Gavle Goat 2024 Birds Eye. If you ever visit sweden during christmas and go to the city of gävle, you can see a huge goat made of straw standing at slottstorget (castle square). The gävle goat is a giant yule goat statue (as high as 13 meters) made of straw.
And every year, arsonists do their best to. This year (xmas 2023), due to the extremely wet weather in late summer, the straw used to construct the goat contains a higher than usual amount of seed, and local.