Edinburgh hosts the annual Hogmanay celebration called the Torchlight Procession.
The procession is one of the opening events of Edinburgh's Hogmanay celebrations. Participants carry flaming torches through the city, creating a large moving river of light before the main New Year's festivities. The route and arrangements can change, but Edinburgh is the event's defining location.
Hogmanay is the Scottish celebration of New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. Edinburgh's program also includes concerts, street events, and midnight fireworks, making it one of the world's best-known organized New Year's festivals.
The Torchlight Procession is sometimes confused with other Scottish fire festivals, such as Up Helly Aa in Shetland. Up Helly Aa is a separate event held in Lerwick, usually in January, rather than Edinburgh's Hogmanay procession.