On-street parking will be free on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's Day in Edinburgh this year.

Santa Weekend marks Santa's arrival at West Princes Street Gardens (10am-6pm each day).

The finale to the Santa Weekend will see thousands of participants raising money for Radio Forth’s Cash for Kids and When you wish upon a Star by completing a stroll throughout

To Narnia once more through the wardrobe, as we travel to one of the most iconic literary lands in the hands of the Lyceum - a theatre deserving of its reputation for creating truly stylish Christmas shows but which, on this occassion, falls just short of the mark.

If there's one time of year where theatres really go to town with their productions it's christmas. This year's crop of christmas shows at Edinburgh's main theatres spans the traditional panto - Aladdin at the King's Theatre - to a more adult-orientated theatrical version of the Witches of Eastwick at The Playhouse Theatre.

Edinburgh's Christmas officially launches when 200,000 lights across the city are switched on and with this preview of some of the shows at this year's Winter festival at the Winter Wonderland -

As the first collaboration between Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber in 1967, the musical "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" has had a colourful history.

Pilton Video, amazingly celebrating its 25 years of community filmmaking this year, is holding a christmas screening of five dramas at the Edinburgh Filmhouse

As the tumbleweeds spun across the horizon and Dorothy and her little dog Toto wondered what might happen next, a Tuesday matinee of mixed-age school children slid into enjoying a carefully crafted version of this familiar story.

A look at 2007 Winter Festivals in Edinburgh...

While for some Edinburgh has almost become synonymous with its annual August arts festivals, its Winter Festivals programme has also expanded in recent years.