Collins Guide to Edinburgh (The companion guides) - Softcover

Youngson, A. J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 000215935X ISBN 13: 9780002159357

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1993

Synopsis

Edinburgh is one of the most exhilarating cities in Europe and the Border Country an area of outstandingly beautiful countryside. This guide looks at both of these areas of Scotland and is written by the author of "The Making of Classical Edinburgh".

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EDINBURGH is one of Europe's most elegant and cosmopolitan cities, the Old Town rebuilt on the medieval street plan after being burned down by the English in 1544, and the eighteenth-century classical New Town more extensive than anything else of its kind in Europe. Edinburgh was the capital of an independent kingdom for more than two hundred and fifty years, and it has the air of a capital, with buildings where kings were born or where some of their more prominent subjects were assassinated, streets once trodden by Mary Queen of Scots and Bonnie Prince Charlie, and a rich artistic life that comes into exhilarating full flower in August with the Edinburgh Festival.

Edinburgh is also the gateway to some of the most spectacularly beautiful country in Britain: lying southward is the romantic landscape of the Borders, a country of ruined abbeys, castles that have withstood countless sieges, and great houses still owned by families 'that the Flood could not wash away'.

Edition details

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 000215935X
• ISBN 13: 9780002159357
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352