Edinburgh
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* The Heart of Midlothian
* Holyrood Abbey
* Holyrood Park
* Huntly House Museum
* John Knox's House
* Lady Stair's House, The Writers' Museum
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* Leith
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* Morningside
* The Mound
* Murrayfield
* Museum of Childhood
* Parliament House
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* The People's Story museum
* Princes Street
* Princes Street Gardens
* Queen Street
* Register House
* Royal High School
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* 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)
Vicinity
+ Vicinity
Walk/Drive
Food&Drink
In The Know
Did You Know?
( Highly Recommended )
Crouched below the Castle Rock, the long open space known as The Grassmarket is one of old Edinburgh's most attractive squares. With its cobbled pavement and groups of trees, it's often likened to a French place, and makes a pleasant place to pause for a little window-shopping and a drink at one of its bars or pubs. It was first chartered as a market in 1477 and served for more than 300 years as the city's main corn and live-stock market, besides being the site of the common gibbet. The Covenanters' Memorial commemorates the many citizens who were hanged here during the religious upheavals of the 17th century. The Grassmarket has been considerably smartened up in recent years, but still manages to retain something of the atmosphere Robert Burns must have felt when he wrote Ae Fond Kiss in the White Hart Inn.
Address: The Grassmarket
Restaurant: Restaurants and cafés near by (Inexpensive-Moderately priced)
Bus: 1, 28, 40
Accessible: Good
Other: Royal Mile; Victoria Street
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