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Head into the New Year with Edinburgh’s Hogmanay
Edinburgh’s Hogmanay is the largest New Year event in the world and its celebrations are internationally renowned. Its unrivalled New Year’s Street Party attracts up to 100 000 people every year for an entertaining and engaging programme of festive celebrations. The celebrations go on for four days and there are events suitable for the whole family. Events include a torchlight procession starting in Parliament Square, a Catalan Parade and Pipe Band Overture, a Hogmanay Street Party and New Year fireworks.
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A little bit of history…
Hogmanay is the Scots Word for the last day of the year. Its roots reach back to the practice of sun and fire worship in mid-winter, and then evolved into ancient saturnalia, a great Roman winter festival during which people could celebrate free of restraint and inhibition. It is only in recent years that the Hogmanay has been celebrated on such a large scale, in particular after Edinburgh hosted the European Union Heads of State conference in 1992. The biggest Hogmanay street party was an estimated 300 000 people.
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