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"This is a city of shifting light, of changing skies, of sudden vistas. A city so beautiful it breaks the heart again and again"

Alexander McCall Smith

"Piled deep and massy, close and high; Mine own romantic town"

Sir Walter Scott

"When I looked out in the morning it is as if I had waked in Utopia."

George Eliot

"Edina! Scotia’s darling seat!"

Robert Burns

"The most beautiful of all the capitals of Europe."

Sir John Betjeman

"We don’t have monuments – we have Gothic Rockets."

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28-11-2019

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Old and New Towns of Edinburgh to become a classroom for every child in Scotland

Image (c) Tom Duffin Edinburgh World Heritage today launched a new educational approach for primary schools with the aim of…


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22-11-2019

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Maintaining the need to maintain – 25 to 29 November is Maintenance Week

Regular building maintenance . . . wait, are you still there? Are your eyes glazing over already? This seems to…


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13-11-2019

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The Waverley Valley, and Edinburgh’s Christmas Market

The Waverley Valley forms a distinctive division between Edinburgh’s two exceptional urban phenomena – the organic medieval Old Town and…


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