Summer Day in Albania

Today, Wine Day is celebrated in Albania, a festival of ancient origin. The center of this festival is Elbasan, while the identifying mark of this celebration is the cooking of the ballacums.

A pagan festival, much earlier than Christianity, is the celebration of Summer Day throughout the area of Elbasan but also other cities of Albania.

But on this marked day, Elbasan returns to the center of diverse celebrations, from wilderness trips to happy family luncheons where the ballacum is not missing.

Genesis Summer Day houses the Zana de Cermenica shrine, built on the outskirts of the city of Elbasan, a goddess of hunting, forest, and all nature.

According to the mouthpiece, this fairy came out of her shrine on the day of March 14. Born from generation to generation, this popular festival is one day that today the identity of the city of Elbasan itself is confirmed. Anyone who spends these days near Elbasan will smell the fragrance of ballacmes.

Ballakumet are traditional holiday desserts. It's not just this day. That makes them even more special. It's sweets cooked with fine corn flour, bio butter and sugar.

Also, a detail of this festival is the putting into the hands of <x0-verine”, a bracelet of white and red fibers tied to the wrist of the hand, and it is selected when the first cell is seen. In some provinces, summers depend on tree branches, mainly lards, that swallows receive and bring prosperity.

In Kosovo, this day is celebrated in some areas, such as in the Prizren region of Zhur, Verin, including the province of Opija in the Sharr mountains at a height above sea level of more than 1,000m, in the municipality of Dragas.

However, from Albania and Albania, in Kosovo there are no institutional organisations for the celebration of Summer Day, but rituals of the ancient Ilio-Albanian pagan holiday have traditionally been preserved from generation to generation by people. True Day is an official holiday in Prizren, according to the Communist Assembly decision.