Best of Edinburgh

Best of Edinburgh Festivals and Events

Held at the Scottish Parliament, this year sees the 13th year of the highly interesting and thought provoking Festival of Politics.

Edinburgh Fringe Festival
(4 to 28 August 2017)

What can we say....... simply the biggest arts festival in the WORLD!!!!

Also check out the Free Fringe

The 2017 Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo
(4 to 26 August 2017)

Picture provided courtesy
of Edinburgh Convention Bureau/Edinburgh Brand

Absolutely fabulous! Don't miss it!

Edinburgh International Television Festival
(23 to 25 August 2017)

The EITF is a unique event created and planned by senior industry figures for the international television and media industry. So if you work in television this is the place to be and be seen.

Edinburgh International Book Festival 2017
(12 to 28 August 2017)

Edinburgh International Book Festival

Buy books, hear authors, relax with a coffee and crank up your literary credentials by a notch or two at this world famous book festival.

Edinburgh International Festival
(4 August to 28 August 2017)

Home of the Festival

The Edinburgh International Festival has been running since 1947 and features top performing artists from around the world. Music, especially classical, theatre, opera, dance, exhibitions, talks and workshops all feature in the International Festival which is the more "highbrow" counterpart to the Fringe.

Edinburgh Art Festival
(27 July to 27 August 2017)

Mask

Spark your visual senses and imagination to life by taking in some of the wonderful array of contemporary and modern art on display at the 50 or so venues across the capital.

Just Festival
(4 to 27 August 2017)

John Knox

The 2017 Just Festival will be held under the theme #AgainstTheCurrent and will host conversations, talks and performing arts events that present people, movements and ideas that challenge(d) the status quo. It will reflect on the three historic events and their anniversaries: 500 years since the Protestant Reformation, 100 years since the Balfour Declaration and 70 years since India declared its independence.