Landmarks
TODO — what landmarks in Edinburgh are actually worth the time.
6 placesEdinburgh Castle
A fortress on a volcanic plug that has been besieged more often than anywhere else in Britain, holding the oldest crown jewels in the islands.
Palace of Holyroodhouse
The King's residence in Scotland, an abbey ruin behind it, and the room where Rizzio was stabbed fifty-six times.
The Scottish Parliament
A building that came in ten times over budget, three years late, won the Stirling Prize, and is free to walk into.
St Giles' Cathedral
The High Kirk of Edinburgh, where Knox preached the Reformation and a woman allegedly threw a stool at a bishop.
Calton Hill
An unfinished Parthenon, an upturned telescope and a monument to Nelson, on the hill that gave Edinburgh the Athens comparison.
The Scott Monument
Sixty-one metres of blackened Gothic spire over a seated novelist, climbed by 287 steps that get narrower as you go.