Thousands Gather At Stonehenge To Celebrate Winter Solstice

(CNN) — On the shortest day of the year, 5,000 people gathered at Stonehenge to celebrate the winter solstice Sunday.
Stonehenge is the UK’s most famous site for solstice celebrations. On the winter solstice, visitors have the rare opportunity to enter the towering, mysterious stone circle for a sunrise ceremony run by local pagan and druid groups.
Rebecca Henderson from Southampton, Hampshire, told CNN that this was a bucket-list experience for her.
“There’s something ve