Edinburgh
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* Ann Street
* Assembly Hall
* Assembly Rooms
* Blackford Hill
* Braid Hills
* Calton Hill
* Camera Obscura
* Charlotte Square
* City Art Centre
* The Colonies
* Corstorphine
* Cowgate
* Craigmillar Castle
* Cramond
* Dean Village
* Duddingston
* Edinburgh Castle Museums
* Edinburgh Exchange
* Edinburgh's Festival Centre - The Hub
* Edinburgh Zoo
* George Street
* The Georgian House
* Gladstone's Land
* The Grassmarket
* Greyfriars Kirk
* Hanover Street
* The Heart of Midlothian
* Holyrood Abbey
* Holyrood Park
* Huntly House Museum
* John Knox's House
* Lady Stair's House, The Writers' Museum
* The Lawnmarket
* Leith
* The Meadows
* Mercat Cross
* Morningside
* The Mound
* Murrayfield
* Museum of Childhood
* Parliament House
* Parliament Square
* The People's Story museum
* Princes Street
* Princes Street Gardens
* Queen Street
* Register House
* Royal High School
* Royal Scottish Academy
* Royal scottish Observatory
* The Royal Yacht Britannia
* St Andrew Square
* St Giles Cathedral
* St Mary's episcopal Cathedral
* Scotch Whisky Heritage Centre
* The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the Dean Gallery
* Scottish National Portrait Gallery
* The Scottish Parliament
* Stockbridge
* Swanston
* Talbot Rice Art Gallery
* The Tron Kirk
* The University of Edinburgh
* Victoria Street
* The Water of Leith
* Waterloo Place
* Waverley Market (princes mall)
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In The Know
Did You Know?
( Highly Recommended )
The Georgian House, on the north side of Robert Adam's Charlotte Square, offers a chance to see how Edinburgh's monied classes lived in the grand houses of the New Town. Reconstruction of the interior involved restoring the original colour scheme, weaving fabrics for curtains and coverings, and tracking down contemporary furniture, rugs, paintings and fittings. You can see the ground-floor dining room, laid up with Wedgwood and silver, and, in true 18th-century style, a ground-floor bedroom, with a dauntingly smart four-poster bed. The fashionably sparsely furnished drawing room runs the full width of the house upstairs, while the basement kitchen was the height of convenience in Georgian times. It's crammed with utensils and dominated by the huge range. Note the blue walls; it was believed that blue kept the flies away.
Address: 7 Charlotte Square
Phone: 0131 226 3318
Open: Apr-Oct, Mon-Sat 10-5, Sun 2-5
Restaurant: Restaurants, bars and cafés near by (Inexpensive-Expensive)
Bus: 12, 22, 33, 51
Accessible: None
Admission: Expensive, but free to National Trust and National Trust for Scotland members
Other: Charlotte Square; George Street; Hanover Street
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