Thousands of people gathered at Stonehenge in southern England to celebrate the Summer Solstice, the longest day in the northern hemisphere. The World Heritage site was open to the public for an extended period inside the stone circle. Druids and modern-day spiritualists performed dawn rituals around the solstice in their traditional white robes. Stonehenge, one of the world's most famous prehistoric monuments, was built 5,000 years ago on the flat lands of Salisbury Plain. Some of the stones came from the Preseli Hills in southwest Wales, while the origins of others remain a mystery.

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