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East Princes
Street Gardens
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Waverley
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Fruitmarket
Gallery
National Gallery
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Writers'
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City Chambers
Edinburgh
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Ramsay
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High Kirk
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MILNE'S
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Weaving
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JAMES
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Outlook
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Gladstone's Land
Witches
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Fringe
Oice
Scotch
Whisky
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Heart of
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PARLIAMENT
SQUARE
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SHOPS
Avalanche
Blackwell's
Coda
Geofrey Tailor
I.J. Mellis Cheesemonger
(Old Town)
Tiso
Underground Solu'shun
Wm Armstrong
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THE ROYAL MILE
Old
College
National Museum
of Scotland
INFIRMARY
STREET
Camera Obscura and World of Illusions
549 Castlehill • Daily: April-June, Sept & Oct 9.30am-7pm; July & Aug 9.30am-9pm; Nov-March 10am-6pm• £11.95 •
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0131 226
3709,
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camera-obscura.co.uk
Edinburgh's
Camera Obscura
has been a tourist attraction since 1853. Housed in the
domed black-and-white turret on the roof, the “camera” consists of a small, darkened
room with a white wooden table onto which a periscope reflects live images of
prominent buildings and folk walking on the streets below. Today, the camera is
somewhat overshadowed by “
World of Illusions
”, a labyrinth of family-friendly exhibits
of visual trickery - many of them playfully interactive - in the floors below.
The Hub
348 Castlehill • Daily 10am-6pm •
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0131 473 2000,
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thehub-edinburgh.com
he imposing black church at the foot of Castlehill is
The Hub
, also known as
“Edinburgh's Festival Centre”. It's open year round, providing performance, rehearsal and
exhibition space, a ticket centre and a café. he building itself was constructed in 1845 to
designs by James Gillespie Graham and Augustus Pugin, one of the architects of the
Houses of Parliament in London - a connection obvious from the superb neo-Gothic
detailing and the sheer presence of the building, whose spire is the highest in Edinburgh.
Gladstone's Land
477B Lawnmarket • Daily: April-June, Sept & Oct 10am-5pm; July & Aug 10am-6.30pm • £6.50; NTS •
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0844 493 2120,
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nts.org.uk
Doing its best to maintain its dignity among a sea of cheap tartan gifts and discounted
woolly jumpers,
Gladstone's Land
is the Royal Mile's best surviving example of a typical
seventeenth-century tenement. he tall, narrow building would have been home to
various families living in cramped conditions: the well-to-do Gledstanes, who built it
in 1620, are thought to have occupied the third floor. he National Trust for Scotland
has carefully restored the rooms, filling them with period furnishings and fittings. he
arcaded and wooden-fronted ground floor is home to a reconstructed cloth shop; pass
