Edinburgh is the capital of Scotland and one of the most beautiful places in the world so now comes the Easter can take to spend your holiday. We show you the best places in which to enjoy Edinburgh.
The capital of Scotland, Edinburgh , is situated on the banks of the River Firth of Forth and has a castle that is in fact the main tourist attraction but the fact is that it can find many places which are worth visiting.
Features Edinburgh:
- We can say that one of the best times to visit a city like Edinburgh is just now in the spring when the capital of Scotland begins to enjoy the weather, although it has winters are very cold and summers although nothing hot, are quite fresh.
- On the other hand we must emphasize the high cultural and architectural presence of the city which was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO and has its origin as a city in the X centuryafter a proclamation of King David I of Scotland, which led to the Church of the Holy Rood of Edinburgh.
- As for what to eat I must say that the local cuisine is similar to that of England but with priority given to meats such as beef or lamb. Meat and venison, partridge and pheasant. Fish is also an essential nutrient of Scottish cuisine, where stands the salmon.
Places not to miss in Edinburgh:
- Edinburgh is perhaps one of the most cultural cities all over Europe and indeed many architectural elements, castles, parks or museums noted above plus visiting Edinburgh's Annual Festival and celebrated in the month of August and in which each year participate all kinds of leading artists.
- The Edinburgh Castle is definitely the place you can not miss when visiting this city and locatedon top of a volcanic plug known as Castle Rock , in the city center, is the main attraction for tourists. Construction began in 1000 AD and is divided into different buildings that give meaning to the utilities has been a royal residence, a fortress or prison for several years.
- Another place that you can not miss is the old part of the city known as Old Town, where you can visit the Royal Mile which is the "backbone" of the neighborhood in which we find homes that belonged to Scottish nobles that reach the splintered to the Palace of Holyroodhouse. As the name suggests, measures a mile and it was the journey that made the king from his palace to his castle.
- Calton Hill is the hill where we can visit the monument to Nelson, the Centre and the National Monument a Parthenon that is not finished and was built in memory of the fallen in the warNapoleonic .
- As we have noted museums Royal Museum , the National Gallery and the Museum of Edinburghwhere we can learn the whole art of this city and elsewhere works by Rafael, Gauguin, Botticelli and Velázquez, among others.
- If previously mentioned Old Town, Edinburgh also has the area New Town where we can enjoy plenty of hotels, restaurants and trendy nightclubs. For shopping, you should take Princes Street and Queen Street, home to exclusive shops.
- Edinburgh also has a cathedral, St. Giles Cathedral , built in the fifteenth century and is also the only medieval church in the city. Tampodo can not miss the Palace of Holyroodhouse , baroque building which was the residence of the Scottish kings (between Mary Stuart them) and still today is the royal residence.
- Princes Street Garden will also find a place in Edinburgh and is a marshland that was drained, further separating Old Town of New Tow n. In these gardens is a monument to the novelist SirWalter Scott, a native of Edinburgh .
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