Beltane Fire Festival

Edinburgh’s Beltane Fire Festival traditionally takes place each year on 30 April atop the city’s Calton Hill – once of Edinburgh’s best known viewpoints.

Join the audience of over 15,000 people who gather to share and marvel at this spectacular procession – inspired by the ancient Gaelic Festival of Beltane, with a heady mix of drums, fire, theatre & pagan ritual. Edinburgh’s Beltane festival traditionally takes place on the 30th of April every year on Calton Hill.

The name itself is thought to have derived from a Gaelic-Celtic word meaning ‘bright/sacred fire’. It was held to mark and celebrate the blossoming of spring, and coincided with the ancient pastoral event of moving livestock to their summer grazing.

For more information on the Beltane Fire Festival visit official website of the Beltane Fire Society.