Up Helly Aa is the biggest fire festival in Europe and takes place on the last Tuesday in January each year, celebrating the Viking heritage of Shetland. The event features a parade of hundreds of torch bearers and Guizer Jarl with his Squad hauling their specially built viking galley. Following the procession, the ship is ceremonially burned at the King George V Playing Field with a crowd of up to five thousand spectators before the Guisers dance the night away in a series of organised ceilidhs at halls around town
1 окт 2024
