VisitWiltshire Visitor Guide 2024
Make time for Wiltshire in 2024 with VisitWiltshire's new visitor guide.
Make time for Wiltshire in 2024 with VisitWiltshire's new visitor guide.
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Longleat Festival of Light<br />
Salisbury International<br />
Arts Festival<br />
Wiltshire Music Centre<br />
The Lord Chamberlain’s Men<br />
well as hosting touring productions. Salisbury Arts Centre is<br />
a vibrant hub of activity housed in a beautiful deconsecrated<br />
church. While Salisbury International Arts Festival takes over<br />
the city for three fabulous weeks from the end of May.<br />
Parade House in Trowbridge is open on a regular basis for<br />
ticketed public events and private tours. It even has its own<br />
cinema and bar in the historic vaults. The luxury 24-seat cinema<br />
The Screening Room opened in the historic vaults of Parade<br />
House in 2023, showing the best in classic and independent<br />
cinema each week. The adjoining Ushers Bar is open on Film<br />
Nights for drinks and light meals, and other selected evenings<br />
for drinks and special events.<br />
There are several music festivals that take place here in Wiltshire<br />
including the world-renowned WOMAD Festival and the End of<br />
the Road Festival, held in the beautiful Larmer Tree gardens.<br />
The small village of Edington, near Westbury, comes alive in late<br />
August with the arrival of the Edington Music Festival, focusing<br />
on choral music.<br />
Taking place just south of Salisbury, in the beautiful<br />
Cranborne Chase National Landscape is the Chalke Valley<br />
History Festival. Not only will you be able to enjoy talks by<br />
famous historians and broadcasters but you can enjoy reenactments,<br />
air shows and discussions and debates.<br />
Events including open-air theatre, historic re-enactments,<br />
firework displays and Christmas celebrations are regular<br />
occurrences at historic properties too. Including Arundells,<br />
Avebury and Bowood, Lacock, Longleat and Mompesson<br />
House, Old Sarum, Old Wardour Castle, Stourhead and<br />
Westonbirt Arboretum.<br />
We’re a creative lot in Wiltshire. Our arts scene is thriving,<br />
inventive and engaging. If you appreciate art in any of its<br />
forms, Wiltshire is the perfect place to immerse yourself in<br />
timeless pleasures.<br />
For further information on the many artistic opportunities<br />
to be enjoyed around the county, go to visitwiltshire.co.uk/<br />
whats-on<br />
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