Edinburgh International Festival - 8 - 31 August 2008 travel tips and stories. Vacations ideas, cruises spa and resorts

Each year the Edinburgh International Festival stages one of the greatest celebrations of the arts, attracting audiences from around the world to the city’s thrilling atmosphere. The Edinburgh International Festival is an annual feast of classical music, opera, theater and dance. The festivities offer a unique opportunity to experience the excitement of live performance by internationally renowned artists as well as the joy of discovering new and unfamiliar works.

The Edinburgh International Festival is a festival of performing arts that takes place in the city of Edinburgh, over three weeks from around the middle of August.
The first International Festival took place in 1947, in the wake of the Second World War, with an optimistic remit to “provide a platform for the flowering of the human spirit” and enrich the cultural life of Scotland, Britain and Europe.

The Festival’s director Jonathan Mills said: “Recently, the European Union has expanded to encompass 27 countries, from Estonia to Cyprus, with a combined population of some 500 million people.”
The dates for the next few International Festivals are as follows: 2009 - 14 August - 6 September; 2010 - 13 August – 5 September