On Tuesday, the Up Helly Aa festival brought fire and tradition to the Shetland Islands as costumed participants, known as ...

Residents of Shetland in the UK celebrate their Viking heritage at the Up Helly Aa fire festival, held in Lerwick.View on ...

Up Helly Aa echoes the long rule of the Kingdom of Norway over Shetland and the return of the sun following the darkest ...

Here is everything you need to know about Up Helly Aa in Shetland as the fiery festival returns this week for 2025.

Lerwick, United Kingdom - January 28, 2025 Lerwick is once again the setting for the Up Helly Aa festival, which dates back to the 1880s and celebrates the culture and heritage of the Vikings of ...

The streets of Lerwick are once again filled with fire and smoke as Shetland holds its world famous Up Helly Aa fire festival. The event, which is traditionally held on the last Tuesday of January, ...

celebrates Shetland's Norse heritage. Thousands of visitors travel to the UK's most northerly islands each year to watch the evening torchlit procession through Lerwick, which reaches its climax ...

Up Helly Aa is returning to Shetland this week, seeing thousands of people across the islands come together to mark the spectacular ... According to the organisers of Lerwick's Up Helly Aa, the event ...

Residents on a remote Scottish island have been celebrating an old Viking fire festival. More than a thousand people, dressed ...