GäVle Goat 2024 In. Here you can read about the fate of the straw goat from the start onwards. The gävlebocken's history begins in 1966 when it was set up for the first time at slottstorget in gävle.
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 straw yule goat constructed each year in gävle, sweden, since 1966.