The New and Old Towns of Edinburgh embody everything, which makes the city world-renowned. Incorporated into a landscape of crags, dips and rolling hills, Edinburgh offers a constantly changing range of perspectives. From the turreted skyline of the medieval Old Town with its towering tenements to the neat and ordered grid of the neoclassical New Town, a new discovery is waiting to be made each way you turn.
The city’s unique built heritage, from the labyrinthine closes and vennels of the Old Town to the elegant boulevards and grand symmetry of the New Town, continues to serve as a spellbinding backdrop to a vibrant cultural scene.