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Where The City Breathes

Parks & Outdoors

TODO — what parks & outdoors in Edinburgh are actually worth the time.

3 places
Arthur's Seat and Holyrood Park, Edinburghmust see
Holyrood

Arthur's Seat and Holyrood Park

An extinct volcano 251 metres high, inside the city, with an Iron Age fort on it and a climb that takes forty minutes.

Princes Street Gardens, Edinburghmust see
City Centre

Princes Street Gardens

A drained loch turned into a valley garden, with a railway hidden in the bottom of it and the castle rising straight out of one side.

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Edinburghmust see
Inverleith

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

Seventy acres and a Victorian glasshouse range, free to walk into, twenty minutes north of the New Town.