Edinburgh Castle and Visitor Attractions

Edinburgh Castle, Scotland, is certainly Edinburgh’s finest, most dramatic must see visitor attraction.

An evolving castle over the centuries, and stunningly perched on its volcanic rock commanding Edinburgh's skyline, it is still today being honed to provide visitors with a day to remember. A new prisoner of war prison vault opened in 2004 enabling visitors to walk through, smell and sense the atmosphere of days in captivity and then see an exhibition of fine trinkets made by inmates to be sold to locals for a few shillings. Famous also for the one o’clock gun, an important tradition for all Edinburghers to set their clocks by, as well as tourists, there are as ever those who enquire as to the time it goes off!

But Edinburgh also has other highly desirable visits to offer. The former Royal Yacht Britannia in Leith is a 5 star visitor attraction, there’s the Whisky Heritage Centre next to the Edinburgh Castle and Camera Obscura with its pinhole camera observing the streets of the city below and further down the Royal Mile, The Real Mary King’s Close, where beneath the City Chambers on the Royal Mile lies Edinburgh’s deepest secret – a warren of hidden streets where people lived, worked and died through the centuries.

The above are just a token list of what to visit whilst here and for further information and brief listings coupled with web links to many of Edinburgh’s top attractions, including Edinburgh Castle << click here.