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More Stories. Glastonbury highlights. VisitBritain Shop. English Heritage Overseas Visitor Pass. National Trust Touring Pass. Camping and Caravanning Club Membership. Unlike the West End, visitors are on every guest list, from the night time cinemas to the biggest gigs. To accommodate the more laid-back reveller, more chilled out areas like the West Holts and Acoustic areas are in easy walking distance. At the top of the site is the Sacred Space — the stone circle is a modern construction, but it has already seen as much celebration and ceremony as some of its forebears.

Sun-up on a Sunday morning, with drums and torches and chanting and an astonishing measure of joy from the sleepless revellers at the Stone Circle is a glorious sight to behold. The Festival takes place in a beautiful location — acres in the Vale of Avalon, an area steeped in symbolism, mythology and religious traditions dating back many hundreds of years. Then there are the people; thousands of them in all their astonishing and splendid diversity!

Back then, the now famous Pyramid Stage wasn't quite as epic as it is today, in fact it started off as a cow shed in It has since grown into the massive main stage we know today, inspired by the giant Pyramid of Giza in Egypt. In , a few weeks before the festival was about to start, the pyramid stage burned down. Thankfully, the organizers were able to create a temporary stage before the festival started.

The festival is known for iconic sets from bands from around the world but there are rules and regulations about how long they can play for. So what would happen, if for example, Stormzy just went on, and on, and on? If a band overruns at Glastonbury, the local council get involved because of noise issues for local people living in the nearby area. Set in acres of countryside, Glastonbury calls itself "the largest green-field music and performing arts festival in the world".

The festival is also in the Guinness Book of World Records for some unexpected reasons, for example, juggling. Yes, juggling. On 26 June , people, each juggling at least 3 objects, managed to keep 2, objects in the air to set a Guinness World Record. More recently, in , 15, people gathered at Glastonbury's famous stone circle, to set a record for making the world's biggest human peace sign. The peace sign was a show of unity after lots of terror attacks in Manchester and London at the time.

The Stone Circle is a famous monument at Glastonbury, people often go there early in the morning as it's a great place to watch the sun come up. Glastonbury has lots of interesting things to see across the site, including a performance space underground!