Calton Hill

• Halloween in Edinburgh

  Edinburgh & the Lothians × Plan Your Trip

  

  Halloween is not an American import in Scotland’s capital. It grew from the Gaelic festival of Samhain, and every 31 October Edinburgh still marks it with fire, drums and the Cailleach.

• Samhain: How to Pronounce It and What It Meant

  Scotland × Plan Your Trip

  

  SOW-in or Sa-wayne? A guide to saying Samhain in Irish and Scottish Gaelic, what the word meant, and how Scotland kept the night, from guising to Edinburgh’s Samhuinn fire festival.

• Calton Hill

  Edinburgh & the Lothians × Scotland × UNESCO World Heritage Sites

  

  An unfinished Parthenon nicknamed Edinburgh’s Disgrace, a tower with a 200-year-old time-drop tradition that just came back to life, and the city’s best free view — Calton Hill is a genuine UNESCO landmark, not just a photo stop.