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About Edinburgh
Visiting Edinburgh
Edinburgh is Scotland's capital city and the world's Festival City. Over the peak festival period in the summer, its population doubles as it plays host to hundreds of thousands of visitors and performers from all over the world.
The huge range and number of artistic events, performances and exhibitions happening throughout the city makes a trip to Edinburgh an unforgettable experience. It makes you feel that there is always something else happening around the corner which you might be missing. There is; and you are. This is inevitable, part of the joy of the Festival.
It can be hard to know which way to look in a city this beautiful; Edinburgh features breathtaking natural landscapes as well as some of the world's most spectacular architecture - including four castles and 160 public monuments.
Calton Hill, with its panoramic views and its unfinished acropolis, towers over the east end of Princes Street, a short walk from Waverley station; a little way to the south, Holyrood Park's six hundred and fifty acres of wilderness stretch from the new Scottish Parliament buildings and the Palace of Holyrood, at the foot of the Royal Mile, up to Arthur's Seat - a craggy, glacier-carved remnant of the city's distant volcanic past.
At the top of the Royal Mile, on another volcanic peak, stands Edinburgh Castle, with views across the whole city - and beside it The Hub, the home of the Edinburgh International Festival.
