Visiting Edinburgh

The Edinburgh Festival

Each August The Edinburgh Festival takes place. The Festival holds the record for the largest arts festival in the world, traces its roots to 1947, when the Edinburgh International Festival (EIF) was established in a post-war effort to "provide a platform for the "flowering of the human spirit".

That same year, eight theatrical companies "gatecrashed" the Festival by organizing their own event, outside the official auspices of the EIF; this started the movement which grew into the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The EFF is also referred to as the Edinburgh Fringe, the Fringe, or, incorrectly, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

The Official Fringe Website

Edinburgh Castle

Edinburgh Castle is an ancient stronghold which dominates the sky-line of the city of Edinburgh from its position atop Castle Rock. It is Scotland's second most visited tourist attraction. Human habitation of the site is dated back as far as the 9th century BC. As it stands today though, few of the castle's structures pre-date the Lang Siege of the 16th century, with the notable exception of St Margaret's Chapel, the oldest surviving building in Edinburgh, which dates from the early 12th century.

Visit Edinburgh Castle

The Royal MIle

The Royal Mile is the Edinburgh's Longest and oldest street running from Edinburgh Castle to the Palace of Holyrood

The largest, longest and finest street for Buildings and Number of Inhabitants, not only in Britain, but in the World...Daniel Defoe, 1723

More Info on the Royal Mile

Princes Street & Princes Street Gardens

Princes Street is Edinburgh primary shopping street and features all the big name retailer Marks & Spencers, Topshop, H & M, HMV, plus many more.......

Princes Street and Princes Street Gardens separate Edinburgh's Old Town and New Town

Further Information is available from Edinburgh and Lothian Tourist Board

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