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@iangblack 1000 torches! @promoteshetland Shetland is home to one of Scotland’s most unique winter festival, Up Helly Aa, which celebrated the islands Norse traditions. The procession begins with a spectacular parade of Viking warriors and guisers marching with flaming torches, before a replica longship is set alight.
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Huge thanks to @shetland_in_360 for giving me a walking tour of Lerwick prior to the event and showing me an ideal spot from which to get content 📸
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Light up Edinburgh with a river of fire! 🔥
Join 15,000 torch bearers from around the world at the iconic Torchlight Procession and enjoy a carnival atmosphere overflowing with street theatre, fire performers and drummers, before the Massed Pipes & Drums and Vikings from Shetland’s South Mainland Up Helly Aa’ Jarl Squad lead the procession through the capital’s historic Old Town 🏴
You can also join the Official Torchlight Procession After-Show Party at the famous Assembly Rooms where Vitamin C presents a night of non-stop dancin’ and live music! 🍋
Book now via 🔗 in bio 🏴
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Vikings singing Elvis’ Hunka Hunka Burning Love at the Shetland Fire Festival Up Helly Aa pre-covid. #vikings
🔥1,000 blazing torches light up the Shetland sky! ✨
Witness the magic of Lerwick Up Helly Aa 2025 in just 100 seconds. Who else wants to experience this epic fire festival? 🔥
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Shetland’s Up Helly Aa Viking festival has reached its fiery culmination with a torchlit procession and the burning of a replica longship.
For the first time in its 143-year history, women and girls took part in the main Viking squad at the head of the torchlit procession.
Up Helly Aa - the biggest fire festival in Europe - is held on the last Tuesday in January.
The annual event sees people celebrate Shetland's Norse heritage with song, axes and shields as well as an all-night party.
Tap the link in our bio to find out more and see more pictures from Up Helly Aa.
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Up Helly Aa 2025 🔥
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🔥🔥🔥 From the dramatic light-up when a thousand flaming torches are ignited, through to the spectacular burning of the replica Viking galley – we’ve captured the highlights of the Lerwick Up Helly Aa procession and burning.
If you think the film is captivating, imagine being there to hear the crackle of the flames, smell the torches and feel the heat of the galley burning.
If Up Helly Aa is not on your bucket list, what is?
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Edinburgh Hogmanay Started With Vikingss✨🕊️
Torchlight Procession 2025/29/12
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Lerwick Up Helly Aa kicked off this morning. We were out and in the action, check out our report. #shetland #uphellyaa #firefestival
There’s one thing I know to be true about Scotland, and that is its enjoyment for a fire related festival.
From the Hogmanay fire procession to Up Helly Aa and everything in between, you’re never short on a firey event here in Scotland 🔥🔥
Have you ever made it to a fire festival / celebration here? Or is it on your bucket list?!.
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There were plenty of guizers at the Up Helly Aa procession. #uphellyaa
Edinburgh Torchlight Procession tonight The Torchlight Procession - returning in 2023 - is the opening event in the annual Edinburgh’s Hogmanay celebrations @edhogmanay with thousands of torchbearers creating a “river of fire” through the city streets.
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While, historically, it has not been as big as Edinburgh’s Hogmanay Street Party, around 40,000 people have come out for the event, to watch and take part. In 2023, there are 20,000 tickets available.
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The 2023 Torchlight Procession will be the first since 2019, after being cancelled due to the pandemic and funding shortfalls, and is being held in partnership with homelessness charity Social Bite. The aim is to raise over £50,000 for Social Bite projects in Edinburgh and across Scotland @social_bite
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The event begins with a carnival atmosphere at the Meadows and follows a route through the Old Town.
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Street theatre, fire performers, pipe bands and drummers will get the festivities started, before Vikings from Shetland’s South Mainland Up Helly Aa’ Jarl Squad lead the procession through the Old Town.
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