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The City of Stirling makes an amazing destination base for your visit to Scotland with easy access to over 80% of the Country being around 90mins away by car. Whatever your plans are, we believe your Scottish experience should start with, be part of or finish with a traditional highland games.
Stirling’s leading annual cultural sporting event showcases a traditional highland games experience for visitors including Heavyweights, Highland Dancing, Track and Field and Piping performances. However, since 2014 we have been building on that by creating an amazing authentic Scottish experience for our visitors that returns ratings of the event at 84% Excellent / Very Good.
Also, recent research now brings to light that Stirling can trace our history back to 1818, making Stirling one of the oldest highland games in Scotland. Make sure you tick this one off the bucket list. Buy your tickets online in advance and enjoy your time with us in Stirling.
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SATURDAY 16TH AUGUST 2025
For the best authentic highland games experience, the INTERNATIONAL GATHERING Ticket provides an amazing day out in central Scotland.
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Places To Go
Stirling is Scotland's most central city. A great place to explore our country from.
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Stay in Stirling
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Latest News
Stirling Highland Games to Host a Novice Heavyweights Training session
Stirling Highland Games is looking forward to hosting its first novice heavyweights training session in June this year. The President of Stirling Highland Games has been pushing for this kind of development for many years now, and having recently agreed to collaborative support from Active Stirling, it allowed him to push on with his vision
Congradulations to Jim Holburn of the Wounded Highlanders
Our President had welcome news this week that Jim Holburn, President of The Wounded Highlanders, was not only a finalist at this year’s Scottish Veteran Awards in April but had also won. Shortlisted in the category ‘Role Model of the Year’, the Stirling Highland Games committee were delighted to hear the news following the Award ceremony. Our
Exciting new Food and Drink area coming to Stirling Highland Games 2025 with EventScotland Support
Organiser’s Ceangail are thrilled to announce that EventScotland has granted funding to support the Stirling Highland Games in 2025. This generous grant will facilitate the creation of a dedicated food and drinks area, significantly enhancing the event experience for attendees and expanding opportunities for Scottish producers within the traders’ village. The addition of this new