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Edinburgh's Old Town is the dark soul of the city – the Mr Hyde to the New Town's Dr Jekyll. This medieval Manhattan of high-rise tenements is inhabited by the ghosts of the city's seamy past: Burke and Hare, Deacon Brodie and "Bloody" Mackenzie are only some of the nefarious char .... Click Here for More

Arthurs Seat and Duddingston

Edinburgh is blessed with many magnificent green, open spaces, and none better than Holyrood Park – or Queen's Park – a 650-acre wilderness of mountains, crags, lochs, moorland, marshes, fields and glens – all within walking distance of the city centre. This is one of the city's g .... Click Here for More

New Town

The neoclassical New Town, one of the boldest schemes of civic architecture in the history of Europe, is what makes Edinburgh a truly world-class city, every bit as impressive as Paris or Prague, Rome or Vienna. Built in a great burst of creativity between 1767 and 1840, it is still inconceivabl .... Click Here for More

Calton Hill and Broughton

In the first few decades of the 19th century there were major exten- sions to the original New Town, spreading to the north, west and east, and all in keeping with the neoclassical theme. Perhaps the most interesting of these extensions is the area around Calton Hill, another of Edinburgh’s .... Click Here for More

Stockbridge and Inverleith

Over the years, Edinburgh's New Town spread out beyond its original plan to swallow up a series of quaint little villages. One of these, the once bohemian Stockbridge, is the perfect antidote to all that perfect symmetry and neoclassical grandeur. Stockbridge has been home to many artists and wr .... Click Here for More

West Edinburgh

Stretching from Princes Street and Lothian Road out towards the city bypass and the airport is West Edinburgh, an indefinable sprawl of mostly residential streets, which on the surface appears to offer little to visitors. This part of the city was once its main engine room, with dozens of brewer .... Click Here for More

South Edinburgh
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Leith Newhaven and Portobello

No part of Edinburgh has undergone such a dramatic transformation in recent years as Leith. One of Edinburgh's most depressed and roughest districts, Leith remained a separate burgh until as recently as the 1920s and even today likes to think of itself as distinct from the rest of the city. Like .... Click Here for More

West of the city

Though Edinburgh is the least claustrophobic of cities, there are those who will wish to take advantage of the many interesting and beaut- iful places to visit outside its boundaries. It’s worth taking a train across the magnificent Forth Rail Bridge to North Queensferry, for instance, or o .... Click Here for More

South of the city

Immediately south of Edinburgh, across the city bypass, are the wild and rugged Pentland Hills, great for a bracing Sunday walk, and the magical, mystical Rosslyn Chapel, with its cache of weird and wonderful secrets.