LOCATION

THE ROYAL HIGHLAND CENTRE

Terminal V Festival runs annually in Edinburgh @ The Royal Highland Centre & Showground. The huge site is adjacent to the grounds of Edinburgh airport.

Terminal V Halloween also runs at the same location but as an 'indoor only' event in the huge halls of The Royal Highland Centre 

TERMINAL V FESTIVAL

Runs for 2 days in spring time in our most unique indoors and outdoor 20,000 capacity site, utilsiing the halls of The Royal Highland Centre and the outdoor space of The Showground

TERMINAL V HALLOWEEN

Runs over Halloween weekend in a alternate format to the festival, strictly indoors running in the huge halls of The Royal Highland Centre over a series of nights.

EDINBURGH

The city is affectionately nicknamed Auld Reekie, Scots for Old Smoky, for the views from the country of the smoke-covered Old Town. A remark on a poem in an 1800 collection of the poems of Allan Ramsay said, "Auld Reeky. A name the country people give Edinburgh from the cloud of smoke or reek that is always impending over it."

CULTURE

Known as the city of festivals,  with some of the best known around the world include the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the Edinburgh International Festival, the Edinburgh Military Tattoo, the Edinburgh Art Festival and the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

The longest established of these festivals is the Edinburgh International Festival, which was first held in 1947 and consists mainly of a programme of high-profile theatre productions and classical music performances, featuring international directors, conductors, theatre companies and orchestras.

Terminal V stands proud as the city's leading electronic music festival.

HISTORY

Edinburgh has been popularly called the Athens of the North since the early 19th century.  References to Athens, such as Athens of Britain and Modern Athens, had been made as early as the 1760s. The similarities were seen to be topographical but also intellectual. Edinburgh's Castle Rock reminded returning grand tourists of the Athenian Acropolis, as did aspects of the neoclassical architecture and layout of New Town. Both cities had flatter, fertile agricultural land sloping down to a port several miles away (respectively, Leith and Piraeus). Intellectually, the Scottish Enlightenment, with its humanist and rationalist outlook, was influenced by Ancient Greek philosophy.