Modern reinterpretation of an ancient Iron Age Celtic ritual, celebrating the start of summer with fire and performance on Calton Hill. It is the largest Celtic fire festival of its kind.
🔥 Witness spectacular fire celebrations, music, and dancing
🎭 Experience immersive ritual with colorful characters, drummers, and acrobats
🎉 Celebrate the start of summer and fertility of the land
🌳 Connect with nature's cycles on Calton Hill
🔞 Event contains semi-nudity and uninhibited behavior
🔊 Features loud noises, strange body-painted characters, and lots of fire
🚶♀️ Uneven, slopey ground on Calton Hill, can be slippery when wet
👶 Not suitable for those with mobility issues, crowds, darkness after sundown
🚶♀️ Long queues for portaloos
👟 Wear sensible shoes (good walking boots) and bring a torch/flashlight
🚫 No large bags or glass containers, alcohol permitted in plastic bottles
👂 Ear protection advised for children
📸 Avoid flash photography and pointing cameras in performers' faces
👨👩👧👦 Arrange a meeting place for children (first aid point recommended)
💰 Tickets on sale, children under 16 require a valid ticket and adult accompaniment.
🕒 Annually on April 30, gates open 7:30pm, arrive before 8:30pm, main festivities start around 9:25pm after sundown.
Calton Hill is walkable from Edinburgh City Centre.
Large number of portaloos and outdoor urinals available on the hill, including stewarded wheelchair accessible units, with hand wash facilities.
Additional waste bins for dry mixed recycling and general waste; all sorted off-site.
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