GäVle Goat 2024 Kalender. The gävle goat is a giant yule goat statue (as high as 13 meters) made of straw. 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 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 gävle goat is a giant yule goat statue (as high as 13 meters) made of straw.