Beltane Fire Festival is an annual participatory arts event and ritual, held on 30 April on Calton Hill in Edinburgh.
Beltane Fire Festival Red Men
Fire festival dancers, 2006
The need-fire is created, and from it the torches lit
The May Queen enters with her handmaidens
Calton Hill is a hill in central Edinburgh, Scotland, situated beyond the east end of Princes Street and included in the city's UNESCO World Heritage Site. Views of, and from, the hill are often used in photographs and paintings of the city.
A view of Calton Hill with some of its many monuments, seen from the Salisbury Crags
View over Edinburgh, with the Dugald Stewart Monument in the foreground
Thistles on Calton Hill in central Edinburgh, Scotland, 2023
Washerwomen on Calton Hill (1825)