Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #2 in City of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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Number of sights 20 sights
Distance 9.8 km
Ascend 377 m
Descend 237 m

Explore City of Edinburgh in United Kingdom with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Activities in City of EdinburghIndividual Sights in City of Edinburgh

Sight 1: Bruntsfield Links

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Bruntsfield Links is 35 acres (14 ha) of open parkland in Bruntsfield, Edinburgh, immediately to the south-west of the adjoining Meadows.

Wikipedia: Bruntsfield Links (EN)

229 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 2: Barclay Viewforth Parish Church

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Barclay Viewforth Church is a parish church of the Church of Scotland in the Presbytery of Edinburgh.

Wikipedia: Barclay Viewforth Church (EN), Website

232 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 3: King's Theatre

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The King's Theatre is a theatre in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Wikipedia: King's Theatre, Edinburgh (EN), Website

231 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 4: Church of St Michael and All Saints

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The Church of St Michael and All Saints is an Episcopal parish church in Edinburgh, Scotland. The church stands in the Anglo-Catholic tradition, and is a Category A listed building.

Wikipedia: Church of St Michael and All Saints, Edinburgh (EN), Website

856 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 5: Castle Terrace

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Castle Terrace Car Park is a car park in Edinburgh in the brutalist style which was designated as a listed building in October 2019.

Wikipedia: Castle Terrace Car Park (EN), Website, Heritage Website

857 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 6: Augustine United Church

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Augustine United Church is a United Reformed Church in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is in a local ecumenical partnership with St Columba's-by-the-Castle and Greyfriars Tolbooth and Highland Kirk.

Wikipedia: Augustine United Church (EN), Website

160 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 7: Greyfriars Bobby

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Greyfriars Bobby Michael Reeve / CC BY-SA 3.0

Greyfriars Bobby was a Skye Terrier or Dandie Dinmont Terrier who became known in 19th-century Edinburgh for spending 14 years guarding the grave of his owner until he died on 14 January 1872. The story continues to be well known in Scotland, through several books and films. A prominent commemorative statue and nearby graves are a tourist attraction.

Wikipedia: Greyfriars Bobby (EN), Website

83 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 8: Greyfriars Kirk

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Greyfriars Kirk is a parish church of the Church of Scotland, located in the Old Town of Edinburgh, Scotland. It is surrounded by Greyfriars Kirkyard.

Wikipedia: Greyfriars Kirk (EN), Website

153 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 9: Bedlam Theatre

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Bedlam Theatre is a theatre in the Old Town of Edinburgh, Scotland. The building was completed in 1848 for the New North Free Church. After closing as a church in 1941, the building served as a chaplaincy centre and then a store for the University of Edinburgh before reopening in 1980 as the student-run theatre of Edinburgh University Theatre Company (EUTC), operating during Edinburgh Fringe festival as venue 49.

Wikipedia: Bedlam Theatre (EN)

275 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 10: National Museum of Scotland

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The National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, Scotland is a museum of Scottish history and culture.

Wikipedia: National Museum of Scotland (EN), Website

483 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 11: Festival Theatre

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The Edinburgh Festival Theatre is a performing arts venue located on Nicolson Street in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is used primarily for performances of opera and ballet, large-scale musical events, and touring groups. After its most recent renovation in 1994, it seats 1,915. It is one of the major venues of the annual summer Edinburgh International Festival and is the Edinburgh venue for the Scottish Opera and the Scottish Ballet.

Wikipedia: Edinburgh Festival Theatre (EN), Website

214 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 12: Edinburgh Central Mosque

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Edinburgh Central Mosque is located on Potterrow near the University of Edinburgh central area and the National Museum of Scotland. The mosque and Islamic centre was designed by Dr. Basil Al Bayati, and took more than six years to complete at a cost of £3.5M. The main hall can hold over one thousand worshippers, with women praying on a balcony overlooking the hall. The mosque holds chandeliers and a vast carpet, with very little furniture.

Wikipedia: Edinburgh Central Mosque (EN), Website

326 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 13: George Square Gardens

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George Square is a city square in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is in the south of the city centre, adjacent to the Meadows. It was laid out in 1766 outside the overcrowded Old Town, and was a popular residential area for Edinburgh's better-off citizens. In the 1960s, much of the square was redeveloped by the University of Edinburgh, although the Cockburn Association and the Georgian Group of Edinburgh protested. Most but not all buildings on the square now belong to the university. Principal buildings include the Gordon Aikman Lecture Theatre, Edinburgh University Library, 40 George Square and Appleton Tower.

Wikipedia: George Square, Edinburgh (EN)

130 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 14: Gordon Aikman Lecture Theatre

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The Gordon Aikman Lecture Theatre is a category B listed performing arts and lecture theatre located in the historic George Square in Edinburgh. Primarily operated as a lecture theatre for the University of Edinburgh, it is also used for general theatre performances, as well as being a designated Edinburgh Fringe Festival venue.

Wikipedia: Gordon Aikman Lecture Theatre (EN)

676 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 15: Symposium Hall

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The King Khalid Building is an event space in the Southside, Edinburgh, Scotland, owned and operated by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. The building was constructed Roxburgh Free Church in 1847 and converted to its current use in 1982.

Wikipedia: King Khalid Building (EN)

958 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 16: Canongate Kirk

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The Kirk of the Canongate, or Canongate Kirk, serves the Parish of Canongate in Edinburgh's Old Town, in Scotland. It is a congregation of the Church of Scotland. The parish includes the Palace of Holyroodhouse and the Scottish Parliament. It is also the parish church of Edinburgh Castle, even though the castle is detached from the rest of the parish. The wedding of Zara Phillips, the Queen's granddaughter, and former England rugby captain Mike Tindall took place at the church on 30 July 2011. The late Queen Elizabeth II used to attend services in the church on some of her frequent visits to Edinburgh.

Wikipedia: Canongate Kirk (EN), Website

452 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 17: The Queen's Gallery

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The Queen's Gallery Bernt Rostad uploaded and derivative work: MrPanyGoff / CC BY 2.0

The King's Gallery, previously known as the Queen's Gallery. is an art gallery in Edinburgh, Scotland. It forms part of the Palace of Holyroodhouse complex. It was opened in 2002 by Queen Elizabeth II, and exhibits works from the Royal Collection.

Wikipedia: Queen's Gallery, Edinburgh (EN)

355 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 18: Dynamic Earth

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Dynamic Earth is a not-for-profit visitor attraction and science centre in Edinburgh, and is Scotland's largest interactive visitor attraction. It is located in Holyrood, beside the Scottish Parliament building and at the foot of Salisbury Crags. It is a registered charity under Scottish law and is owned as The Dynamic Earth Charitable Trust. The centre was opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1999.

Wikipedia: Dynamic Earth (Edinburgh) (EN), Website

1440 meters / 17 minutes

Sight 19: Cairn for Margaret Hall

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Holyrood Park is a royal park in central Edinburgh, Scotland about 1 mile to the east of Edinburgh Castle. It is open to the public. It has an array of hills, lochs, glens, ridges, basalt cliffs, and patches of gorse, providing a wild piece of highland landscape within its 650-acre (260 ha) area. The park is associated with the Palace of Holyroodhouse and was formerly a royal hunting estate. The park was created in 1541 when James V had the ground "circulit about Arthurs Sett, Salisborie and Duddingston craggis" enclosed by a stone wall.

Wikipedia: Holyrood Park (EN)

1645 meters / 20 minutes

Sight 20: Arthur's Seat

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Arthur's Seat is an ancient volcano which is the main peak of the group of hills in Edinburgh, Scotland, which form most of Holyrood Park, described by Robert Louis Stevenson as "a hill for magnitude, a mountain in virtue of its bold design". It is situated just to the east of the city centre, about 1 mile (1.6 km) to the east of Edinburgh Castle. The hill rises above the city to a height of 250.5 m (822 ft), provides excellent panoramic views of the city and beyond, is relatively easy to climb, and is popular for hillwalking. Though it can be climbed from almost any direction, the easiest and simplest ascent is from the east, where a grassy slope rises above Dunsapie Loch. At a spur of the hill, Salisbury Crags has historically been a rock climbing venue with routes of various degrees of difficulty. Rock climbing was restricted to the South Quarry, but access was banned altogether in 2019 by Historic Environment Scotland.

Wikipedia: Arthur's Seat (EN)

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