Description: The Montol Festival is an annual celebration in Penzance, Cornwall, UK, held on the 21st of December each year. It was started in 2007, and the people who originated the event were also involved in the midsummer Golowan Festival.
Tell me more Winter Solstice - Penzance - 21 st of December every year Winter Solstice Date 21st December - Winter solstice Location Penzance Start First procession: Top of Causeway Head before dusk Main procession: 6pm Chapel Street
The Montol Festival is an annual celebration in Penzance, Cornwall, UK, held on the 21st of December each year. It was started in 2007, and the people who originated the event were also involved in the midsummer Golowan Festival. Since 2014, Montol has been run by the Cornish Culture Association, a Charitable Incorporated Organisation.
The festival is a revival - or reinterpretation - of many of the traditional Cornish midwinter customs and Christmas traditions which were formerly practised in and around the Penzance area - and were once common to much of Cornwall. Montol is held on the traditional date of the feast of St Thomas the Apostle, usually the 21st of December, which always coincides with the winter solstice.