Ruggedly beautiful Edinburgh has had plenty of tales to tell in the 900 years since King David I of Scotland named it a royal burgh in 1124. Fall is an ideal time for exploring the ancient warren ...

4. Best for design gurus Market Street Hotel Between the Old and New Towns, just steps from Waverley station, you’ll find the capital’s first representative of the Design Hotels group.

The New Town, constructed between 1767 and 1890 as a collection of seven new towns on the glacial plain to the north of the Old Town, is framed and articulated by an uncommonly high concentration of ...

Edinburgh’s Old and New Towns, added to the list in 1995, help the city attract around five million visitors annually. The Edinburgh Festival Fringe alone typically brings in two million people ...

The Old and New Towns were inscribed on the World Heritage List for their remarkable juxtaposition of two urban planning phenomena: the early mediaeval ‘herringbone’ layout of the Old Town on the crag ...

Old and New Towns of Edinburgh Edinburgh has been the Scottish capital since the 15th century. It has two distinct areas: the Old Town, dominated by a medieval fortress; and the neoclassical New Town, ...

Plans have been lodged to turn former Edinburgh city centre nightclub Espionage into a new spa, with pools, steam rooms and a ...

Where old and modern merge seamlessly: along with medieval alleys, design-forward buildings and a ‘new’ Scottish cuisine. Edinburgh, a charismatic city full of staircases and hills festooned ...