This is the only city in the world to erect a 60-metre-tall monument in honour of one of Scotland’s greatest writers, Sir Walter Scott. Writers as diverse as Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Burns, JM Barrie, Muriel Spark, and Harry Potter author JK Rowling, have all been inspired and enriched by the creative fabric of the city.
Boasting the world’s largest literature festival, home to a myriad of bookshops and festivals, not to mention the highest concentration of public libraries in Scotland – Edinburgh is a city which celebrates the power of the written word quite unlike any other. Did you know that the first book ever printed in Scotland was printed in Edinburgh in 1508?