GäVle Goat 2024 Feestdagen. The peculiar story about the gävle goat started in 1966, when the idea came up to design a giant version of the traditional swedish christmas straw goat: The giant straw goat, in the almost 60 years since the town of gävle first initiated the giant decorative festive tradition, has suffered.

Firm favourite of arsonists and jackdaws alike, will the goat make it through to new year, or will it be be set ablaze, pecked apart, or subject to even more esoteric. It is a straw christmas goat that gets built every year in the city of gävle (about 100 miles north of stockholm).