Places to visit in Edinburgh City of
A short list of notable parks, markets, museums and landmarks in Edinburgh City of.
- Bruntsfield Links · Parks
Bruntsfield Links is 35 acres (14 ha) of open parkland in Bruntsfield, Edinburgh, immediately to the south-west of the adjoining Meadows.
- Catherine Sinclair Monument · Historic
monument in Edinburgh, Scotland
- Dugald Stewart Monument · Historic
monument in City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
- Dynamic Earth · Culture
Dynamic Earth is a not-for-profit visitor attraction and science centre in Edinburgh, and is Scotland's largest interactive visitor attraction. It is located in Holyrood, beside the Scottish Parliament building and at the foot of Salisbury Crags. It is a registered charity under Scottish law and is owned as The Dynamic Earth Charitable Trust. The centre was opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1999.
- Edinburgh Castle · Culture
Edinburgh Castle is a historic castle in Edinburgh, Scotland. It stands on Castle Rock, which has been occupied by humans since at least the Iron Age. There has been a royal castle on the rock since the reign of Malcolm III in the 11th century, and the castle continued to be a royal residence until 1633. From the 15th century, the castle's residential role declined, and by the 17th century it was principally used as a military garrison. Its importance as a part of Scotland's national heritage was recognised increasingly from the early 19th century onwards, and various restoration programmes have been carried out since the middle of the 19th century.
- George Buchanan's Monument, Churchyard, Greyfriars Church, Candlemaker Row, Edinburgh · Historic
monument in City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
- Holyrood Park · Parks
Holyrood Park is a public park in central Edinburgh, Scotland about 1 mile to the east of Edinburgh Castle. It has an array of hills, lochs, glens, ridges, basalt cliffs, and patches of gorse, providing a wild piece of highland landscape within its 650-acre (260 ha) area. The park is associated with the Palace of Holyroodhouse and was formerly a royal hunting estate. The park was created in 1541 when James V had the ground "circulit about Arthurs Sett, Salisborie and Duddingston craggis" enclosed by a stone wall.
- King George V Park · Parks
Canonmills is a district of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. It lies to the south east of the Royal Botanic Garden at Inverleith, east of Stockbridge and west of Bellevue, in a low hollow north of Edinburgh's New Town. The area was formerly a loch which was drained in three phases in the 18th and 19th centuries, disappearing finally in 1865.
- King's Gallery · Culture
art gallery in Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh
- Lauriston Building · Culture
hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
- Modern Two · Culture
Modern Two, formerly the Dean Gallery, in Edinburgh, is one of the two buildings housing the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, one of Scotland's national art galleries. It is operated by National Galleries Scotland. It is twinned with Modern One which lies on the opposite side of Belford Road.
- Museum of Childhood · Culture
Museum in City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Museum of Edinburgh · Culture
museum in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Museum on the Mound · Culture
money museum in the headquarters of HBOS
- National Monument of Scotland · Historic
monument in City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
- National Museum of Scotland · Culture
The National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, Scotland, is a museum of Scottish history and culture.
- People's Story Museum · Culture
The People's Story Museum is located in the historic Canongate Tolbooth, and features collections that narrate the story of the working-class people of Edinburgh from the late 18th century to the present day. The museum achieves this through the use of oral history, reminiscence, and written sources.
- Political Martyrs' Monument · Historic
monument in City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
- Princes Street Gardens · Parks
Princes Street Gardens are two adjacent public parks in the centre of Edinburgh, Scotland, lying in the shadow of Edinburgh Castle. The Gardens were created in the 1820s following the long draining of the Nor Loch and building of the New Town, beginning in the 1760s.
- Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion · Culture
hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
- Royal Museum of Scotland · Culture
The National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, Scotland, is a museum of Scottish history and culture.
- Royal Public Dispensary of Edinburgh · Culture
former hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
- Scotch Whisky Heritage Centre · Culture
The Scotch Whisky Experience is a visitor attraction themed around Scotch whisky in Edinburgh, Scotland. The attraction occupies a Category B listed Victorian era school building, located on Castlehill, part of the Royal Mile in the Old Town. It is immediately adjacent to the esplanade of Edinburgh Castle, within the Edinburgh UNESCO World Heritage Site.
- Scott Monument · Historic
The Scott Monument is a Victorian Gothic monument to Scottish author Sir Walter Scott. It is the second-largest monument to a writer in the world after the José Martí monument in Havana. It stands in Princes Street Gardens in Edinburgh, opposite the former Jenners building on Princes Street and near Edinburgh Waverley Railway Station, which is named after Scott's Waverley novels.
- Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art · Culture
National Galleries Scotland: Modern is part of National Galleries Scotland, which is based in Edinburgh, Scotland. The Modern houses the collection of modern and contemporary art dating from about 1900 to the present in two buildings, Modern One and Modern Two, that face each other on Belford Road to the west of the city centre.
- Scottish National Portrait Gallery · Culture
National Galleries Scotland: Portrait is an art museum on Queen Street, Edinburgh. Portrait holds the national collections of portraits, all of which are of, but not necessarily by, Scots. It also holds the Scottish National Photography Collection.
- Talbot Rice Gallery · Culture
Art gallery in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
- The Meadows · Parks
park in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
- Victorian Pharmacy Museum · Culture
museum in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
- Water is not for man alone monument · Historic
monument in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
- Writers' Museum · Culture
Museum in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Alpine Garden · Attraction
- Blair Street Underground Vaults · Attraction
- Camera Obscura & World of Illusions · Attraction
Camera Obscura & World of Illusions is a tourist attraction located in Outlook Tower on the Castlehill section of the Royal Mile close to Edinburgh Castle. The original attraction was founded by entrepreneur Maria Theresa Short in 1835 and was exhibited on Calton Hill. Outlook Tower has been a museum since the late 1890s and is currently home to many interactive exhibits, including the original camera obscura.
- Chinese Hillside 中国坡 · Attraction
- Cryptogamic Garden · Attraction
- Demonstration Garden · Attraction
- Dovecot Gallery · Landmark
- Edinburgh Farmers' Market · Attraction
- Greyfriars Bobby · Historic tomb
- Greyfriars Bobby · Historic memorial
Greyfriars Bobby was a Skye Terrier or Dandie Dinmont Terrier who became known in 19th-century Edinburgh for reportedly spending 14 years guarding the grave of his owner until his death. The story continues to be well known in Scotland, through several books and films, though its accuracy is disputed. A prominent commemorative statue and nearby graves are tourist attractions.
- Herbaceous Border and Beech Hedge · Attraction
- John Muir Grove · Attraction
- Memorial to Archibald Constable · Historic tomb
- Mons Meg · Historic cannon
Mons Meg is a medieval bombard in the collection of the Royal Armouries, on loan to Historic Environment Scotland and located at Edinburgh Castle in Scotland. It has a barrel diameter of 20 inches (510 mm), making it one of the largest cannons in the world by calibre.
- Native Woodland · Attraction
- One O'Clock Gun · Historic cannon
Edinburgh Castle is a historic castle in Edinburgh, Scotland. It stands on Castle Rock, which has been occupied by humans since at least the Iron Age. There has been a royal castle on the rock since the reign of Malcolm III in the 11th century, and the castle continued to be a royal residence until 1633. From the 15th century, the castle's residential role declined, and by the 17th century it was principally used as a military garrison. Its importance as a part of Scotland's national heritage was recognised increasingly from the early 19th century onwards, and various restoration programmes have been carried out since the middle of the 19th century.
- Prisoners of War Museum · Museum
- Queen Mother's Memorial Garden · Attraction
- Rock Garden · Attraction
- Saorsa Art Gallery · Landmark
- Scottish Heath Garden · Attraction
- Stockbridge Market · Attraction
- Studio Bizio · Landmark
- Talbot Rice Gallery · Museum
The Talbot Rice Gallery is the public art gallery of the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and part of Edinburgh College of Art. The building has three exhibition spaces, including a contemporary white cube gallery and a neoclassical space that was formerly a 19th-century natural history museum. Its programme includes a number of exhibitions each year, with solo shows providing international artists with access to University research and collections, whilst conceptual group shows foreground key political and social issues. The Talbot Rice Gallery is open to the public and admission is free.
- The Atelier Gallery · Landmark
- Tombstone of David Allan · Historic tomb
- Vault of Dr Robert Candlish & James Candlish · Historic tomb
- Vault of Robert Burn · Historic tomb
- West Bow Well · Attraction
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