
City of Destination
Edinburg is very unique city. Tourism, its proximity to England, and its multicultural population set it apart. There's up-to-the-nanosecond dance clubs in 15th-century buildings and firebreathers outside Georgian mansions: this is a place that knows how to blend ancient and modern.Its superb architecture ranges from ancient churches to monumental Victorian masterpieces - all dominated by a castle on a precipitous crag in the city's heart. Pick any street to stroll - you'll be wowed by sudden vistas of looming battlements, cold volcanic peaks and hills steeped in memory.Edinburgh's past is filled with historic and literary icons: John Knox, Mary Queen of Scots, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Alexander Graham Bell, Sir Walter Scott, and Bonnie Prince Charlie. In modern times, the city has become famous for hosting the ever-growing Edinburgh International Festival, with its world-class list of cultural events. But remember that the treasures of this ancient seat of Scottish royalty are available year-round; in fact, when festival-hoppers have gone home, the pace is more relaxed, the prices are lower, and the people themselves, under less pressure, return to their traditional hospitable ways.The city was once the cultural capital of the north, but it has lost that distinction to Glasgow. However, Edinburgh is trying to reclaim its former reputation.