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Up Helly Aa Has New Website

The largest fire festival in Europe, the Lerwick Up Helly Aa, has a brand new website.

The festival, which takes place every year on the last Tuesday in January, marks the return of lighter days and features more than 800 torchbearers in a march around Lerwick, followed by the solemn burning of a magnificent Viking galley. The parties which follow, in a dozen halls around the town, last until eight o'clock the following morning, which - not surprisingly - is a public holiday. Up Helly Aa has always been very much a community event but, over recent years, more and more visitors have made the trip north to see, hear and smell this extraordinary spectacle.

View the new Up Helly Aa website.

Published: 02/11/2009

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