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Helly Aa Fire Festival Lights Up Lerwick, Shetland
Europe's biggest fire festival lights up Shetland
Up Helly Aa - Europe's biggest fire festival - is traditionally held on the last Tuesday of January and celebrates Shetland's Norse heritage. Thousands of visitors travel to the UK's most northerly islands to watch the evening torchlit procession through Lerwick, which reaches its climax when the replica of a Viking long ship is set on fire.
Up Helly Aa: The story of Shetland's Viking festival
Here is everything you need to know about Up Helly Aa in Shetland as the fiery festival returns this week for 2025.
Residents celebrate Shetland’s Norse heritage at Up Helly Aa fire festival
Residents on a remote Scottish island have been celebrating an old Viking fire festival. More than a thousand people, dressed as Vikings, marched through the town of Lerwick, in the Shetland Islands,
Up Helly Aa fire festival lights up Shetland
Welcome to our coverage of the spectacular Up Helly Aa. The annual event celebrates Shetland's Norse heritage, on the last Tuesday in January in Lerwick. The celebrations will culminate in the burning of a replica Viking galley tonight.
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Up Helly Aa: A fiery celebration of Shetland's Norse Heritage
Residents of Shetland in the UK celebrate their Viking heritage at the Up Helly Aa fire festival, held in Lerwick. View on ...
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Shetland has once again celebrated its annual fire festival - the largest of its kind in Europe. Up Helly Aa has been held for over 140 years in Lerwick to celebrate Shetland's Norse heritage. Women ...
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