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

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

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

Formerly the site of a Franciscan friary, Greyfriars dates back to 1620. The west end of the church was red-uced to ruins in 1718, however, after the local council's nearby...

There has been a church on the site of St Giles since 854. Nothing remains of the earliest structures, but the four pillars that surround the Holy Table in the centre have...

The Grade A-listed Tolbooth St John's Kirk started life as the Victoria Hall for the Established Church General Assembly in 1844, following the religious 'Disruption' of the...

Set in large, reasonably well-kept grounds on the way to Cramond, this 16th-century neo-Jacobean fortified property was built as a 1590s tower house for Sir Archibald Napier,...

Built between 1541 and 1547 (the steeple was added in 1626), Magdalen Chapel is the headquarters of the Scottish Reformation Society. The chapel held the first congregation of...

The Palace of Holyroodhouse has its origins in the Abbey of Holyrood (now picturesque ruins), established in 1128 by David I. When Edinburgh was confirmed as the nation's...

Along with Duddingston Kirk and Kirkliston's parish church, St Cuthbert's has claim to being one of the oldest places of worship in the city. However, although its steeple...

With Edinburgh's Tolbooth long since consigned to the annals of history, the Canongate Tolbooth is one of the most emotionally resonant buildings in the Old Town. It's where...

William Playfair's vast building is effectively a large-scale temporary exhibition space, supplementing big-ticket blockbusters of the likes of Monet and Titian with shows...

Through the unassuming doorway and past a bright café selling organic and homemade food, a light, airy space holds a free permanent exhibition entitled 'Scotland's Stories'....

The original Trinity House was built in 1555 as the Hospital for the Fraternity of Masters & Mariners of Leith. Completely rebuilt in classical Georgian style in 1816 by Thomas...