Helly Aa Fire Festival Lights Up Lerwick, Shetland

Check out this fiery Viking festival in Shetland
It was an un-fire-gettable night in Lerwick this week as their world-famous fire festival filled the streets with flames and smoke. It's called Up Helly Aa, and usually takes place on the last Tuesday of January every year.
UK: Up Helly Aa Fire Festival Lights Up Lerwick, Shetland
Lerwick, Shetland, Scotland, UK Video Recording Date/Time 28, 2025 Shetland celebrated its famous Up Helly Aa fire festival, honoring its Norse heritage, on Tuesday, January 28. The event featured a torchlit procession and the ceremonial burning of a Viking longship.
Residents celebrate Shetland’s Norse heritage at Up Helly Aa fire festival
Residents on a remote Scottish island have been celebrating an old Viking fire festival. More than a thousand people, dressed as Vikings, marched through the town of Lerwick, in the Shetland Islands,
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Up Helly Aa echoes the long rule of the Kingdom of Norway over Shetland and the return of the sun following the darkest winter days.
Europe's biggest fire festival lights up Shetland
Up Helly Aa - Europe's biggest fire festival - is traditionally held on the last Tuesday of January and celebrates Shetland's Norse heritage. Thousands of visitors travel to the UK's most northerly islands to watch the evening torchlit procession through Lerwick, which reaches its climax when the replica of a Viking long ship is set on fire.
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Up Helly Aa fire festival lights up Shetland
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