Given the maelstrom of disinformation and growing tension on the world stage, this year’s 2025 International Festival theme ...

Join magician, psychologist and writer Professor Richard Wiseman in a fascinating local history talk exploring the surprising and little-known magical history of Edinburgh. Around the turn of the ...

Thomas Søndergård, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra's Music Director is working through Mahler's symphonies. Mahler's Ninth is the last the composer was to complete. It was the only work to be ...

Submitted by edg on Tue, 26 Nov '24 7.19am The Edinburgh International Festival may have come first, but generally it's the Fringe that Edinburgh is best-known for. There's really nothing quite like ...

St Andrew's House is the H.Q. of the Scottish Government, found East of Princes Street on the south side of Calton Hill. Built on the site of the old Calton Jail, the imposing Orwellian hulk was the ...

Vogrie (boggy place) is a rural, community park in a Victorian estate in Gorebridge to the southeast of Edinburgh. Has 11.5 miles of footpaths through parkland, woodland and the River Tyne valley.

Submitted by edg on Thu, 10 Oct '19 6.28am One of the official events at Edinburgh's Hogmanay, this traditional ceilidh dance for thousands is held annually in the West End of West Princes Street ...

Edinburgh cinemas, films, film news and screening times. Click the clock for films and screening times in a new window. This week's film reviews: Guardian, Independent, Scotsman The Cameo Cineworld ...

Abbeyhill is to the East of the city and overlaps the Eastern fringe of Edinburgh Old Town. It takes its name from… Quiet village to the South West perimetre of the city. Situated at the foot of the ...

The Scottish capital spread out from this medieval stronghold perched on top of an extinct volcano.

On the last night of April and first day of May up to 12,000 people take to Calton Hill for a ritualised and pantheistic celebration to mark the arrival of Summer. The event, Beltane Fire Festival, ...