Edinburgh attractions on the map

The close's name preserves the outcome of the career of a man who was once sentenced to death in absentia.

The rooms show how fashionable society could turn a private secret into a public fact in a single evening.

The façade and a grave tell two stories of return: a congregation to its own church, and a poet to his name.

The former town hall and prison explains why this part of the street once had its own judges and prisoners.

Here you will see how a garrison parade ground became an urban stage.

The square shows how a shared facade and a private garden had to be adapted for a large monument.

The finale will show how the everyday protection of one entrance became a shared project for the street.

From this height, the divide between New Town and the land that was meant to be developed becomes clear.

Here, the story of five generations of millers ends, and a new life for the industrial buildings begins.

The courtyard of the first houses takes the grand street back to the time when the first developer had to be enticed with a cash reward.

One address reveals how many servants, expenses, and debts social status required.

This stop presents old Edinburgh as a housing market, where costly decoration served as a business calculation.

The finale will extend the family calculation to an entire block, where the landowner set the facades, payments, and access to the garden in advance.

The portico will show how a national ambition stopped at the limit of the money raised.

The tower will link the city skyline to a practical task for captains in Leith.

The final stop moves the history of power from parliamentary halls into the queen's private rooms.

The square links the royal proclamation with the reckoning that followed the restoration of the monarchy.

The southern edge of the grid shows how the view from private windows became a garden and a transport corridor.

This stop adds a homemade cinema and its unexpected street audience to the aristocratic grid.

The exposure makes it possible to see the arguments in an old scientific dispute in the rock itself.

The proximity of an old mansion and the new Parliament links the final session of one institution with the work of another.

This stop raises the route's central question: who really controlled the geometry of the New Town.

Here, two states of the hillside sit side by side: a medieval place of pilgrimage and an urban park.

The pavilion is needed to separate the medical fashion from the reason people began coming here later.

Here, an ordinary object belonging to a parishioner will become the starting point for resistance to royal reform.

At the bridge, the interests of a new residential development and a working grain mill will clash.

This stop will show why a correct observation does not yet guarantee scientific priority.

One residential address preserves the story of French servicemen who had nowhere to return to on leave.

This section will link the former industrial banks to a continuous urban route along the river.

Here you will see the price private initiative paid for a direct eastern entrance to the center.

The courtyard shows how inexpensive workers' housing became a dispute over the rules of shared life.