When John Lamont, the 18th Chief of Clan Lamont, bought this house in 1796, it cost him the princely sum of £1,600. It's now run by the National Trust for...

Edinburgh has a wealth of institutions serving the visual arts, but perhaps none is as grand as the National Gallery. Built by William Playfair in 1848, it...

This grand structure was completed in 1826 to the designs of William Playfair, but its exterior dates from eight years later, after Playfair was asked to...

Opened by the Queen in summer 2008, Scotland's People Centre is the country's leading facility for family research, describing itself as the 'official...

Travellers emerging from Waverley Station expecting to see austere classical architecture may gawp in disbelief at the Victorian Gothic ostentation of the...

The Scottish National Portrait Gallery's collection takes in everything from historic figures (the mural in the foyer depicts key moments in the country's...

St Cuthbert's has claim to being one of the oldest places of worship in or around the city. However, although its steeple dates to 1789, the church's...

Designed in the perpendicular Gothic style by William Burn, who also built the Melville Monument in St Andrew Square, St John's began life in 1816, just...