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Tynwald Day Ceremony and Fair in St John's
Tynwald Day is the Isle of Man's national day, when the island's parliament sits in the open air at St Johns rather than in its Douglas chambers, a tradition with roots in eighth-century Viking settlement and often cited as the world's longest continuous parliamentary tradition. New laws are read aloud from Tynwald Hill in both English and Manx Gaelic, surrounded by a large public fair with stalls, food, and entertainment.
Tynwald Day marks the annual open-air sitting of Tynwald, the Isle of Man's parliament, on Tynwald Hill in St Johns, a tradition with roots in Viking settlement of the island beginning in the eighth century and generally cited as the longest continuous parliamentary tradition in the world.