WELCOME -- EDINBURGH TOURIST GUIDE
Edinburgh (Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Èideann) is the capital of Scotland, as well as the seat of the Scottish parliament and government. Humans have settled the Edinburgh area from at least the Bronze Age, leaving traces of primitive stone settle- ments at Holyrood, Craiglockhart Hill and the Pentland Hills.
Edinburgh is the capital of Scotland
It was founded in 1124.
Edinburgh is one of Europe's most beautiful cities, draped across
a series of rocky hills overlooking the sea. It's a town intimately
entwined with its landscape, with buildings and monuments perched atop
crags and overshadowed by cliffs - in the words of Robert Louis Stevenson,
'a dream in masonry and living rock'. From the Old Town's picturesque
jumble of medieval tenements piled high along the Royal Mile, its
turreted skyline strung between the black, bull-nosed Castle Rock
and the russet palisade of Salisbury Crags, to the New Town's neat
grid of neoclassical respectability, all columns and capitals,
porticoes and pediments, the city offers a constantly changing
perspective. And it's all small enough to explore easily on foot.
- Lonely Planet
EDINBURGH HAS MUCH TO OFFER, INCLUDING IT'S FAMOUS
CASTLE