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Edinburgh's Festivals
Visiting Edinburgh
Edinburgh is Scotland's beautiful capital, known the world over as the Festival City. Visitors flock to Edinburgh in August to experience a feast of summer festivals offering a diverse variety of artists and events.
There is something for everyone so come to Edinburgh and be inspired!
The Festivals Online
The official Edinburgh Festivals site enables you to search across every event in each festival. It also has access to the individual websites of all of Edinburgh's festivals.
Edinburgh Festivals Guide Daily
Look out for the free official daily listings magazine. The Edinburgh Festivals Guide Daily contains listings of all events across all of the festivals. Pick it up at The Hub and all around the city.
Edinburgh Festivals Map
A useful guide to help you get around all the summer festivals.
Edinburgh International Film Festival
18 - 29 June
Tel: 0131 228 4051
Please note change of dates - this will be the annual timing in the future.
Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival
25 July - 3 August
Tel: 0131 467 5200
Edinburgh Art Festival
31 July - 31 August
Edinburgh Military Tattoo
1- 23 August
Tel: 0131 225 1188
Edinburgh Festival Fringe
3 - 25 August
Tel: 0131 226 0026
Tel: 0131 226 0000
(box office from 9 June)
Festival of Spirituality and Peace
3 - 24 August
Tel: 0131 221 2273
Edinburgh International Book Festival
9 - 25 August
Tel: 0131 718 5666
Tel: 0845 373 5888
admin@edbookfest.co.uk
Festival of Politics
20 - 23 August
Tel: 0131 348 5000
Edinburgh Mela
25 - 31 August
Tel: 0131 347 2600
Please note new venue, beside Ocean Terminal, Leith.
National Galleries of Scotland
Tel: +44 (0)131 624 6200
Several other festivals take place in Edinburgh during the rest of the year:
Edinburgh International Science Festival
25 March - 5 April 2008
Tel: +44 (0)131 524 9830
Bank of Scotland Imaginate Festival
Scotland's International Children's Theatre Festival
27 May - 2 June 2008
Edinburgh's Christmas and Edinburgh's Hogmanay
Late November - 31 December
Tel: +44 (0)131 529 3914
