The Brass Rubbing Centre is housed in an atmospheric location: the apse that is the only surviving remnant of the Gothic Trinity College Church, founded in...

Created by optician Maria Short in the 1850s, the Camera Obscura is a system of mirrors that projects a periscope image of the city on to a white disc in...

Built in 1870, the headquarters of the city's library service today houses the Edinburgh Room, the Scottish Department, and reference, fiction and lending...

At this fruit farm, you can pick your own soft fruit (also available by the punnet), enjoy some ravishing views over to Fife and down the Firth of Forth,...

A fabulous and largely complete ruin with parts dating back more than 600 years, Craigmillar Castle is a little out of the way; two and a half miles south...

Housed in an impressive 1831 building that was originally an orphanage, the Dean Gallery offers an impressive range of modern art. The permanent collection...

Opened in 1887, the Infirmary Street Baths were the product of Victorian public health improvements. The bathhouse gave people from the neighbourhood...

Military barracks, prison, royal residence, murder scene, birthplace of kings and queens… Edinburgh Castle has served a variety of purposes during the...

The ECA operates a year-round programme of exhibitions by artists from all over the world, but there are three key local events in amongst them: the May...

If you like your history packed with facts, this might not be for you. However, if disease, murder, exaggerated pantomime mayhem and the pornography of...

Occupying the building that held the old Castlehill reservoir, this establishment is like an extensive complex of concessions where you can do everything...

Edinburgh Zoo's greatest claim to kids' attention is the Penguin Parade. It's scheduled for 2.15pm daily (Apr-Aug) subject to the penguins' attitudes; given...

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...

Built in 1550 and extensively rebuilt 70 years later by Merchant Burgess Thomas Gledstanes, an ancestor of prime minister William Gladstone, Gladstone's...