Edinburghers
Some people who helped shape the world Edinburgh has produced,
How many people live in Edinburgh? Around 523,250 people call Scotland’s capital home. Here’s how Edinburgh’s population compares with Glasgow and Scotland as a whole.
Inside St Giles’ Cathedral is an unusual bronze memorial to Edinburgh-born writer Robert Louis Stevenson. Created by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, it shows Stevenson reclining with his writing materials rather than posing as a conventional Victorian literary hero.
Edinburgh Festivals are known worldwide. Although August is the busiest
Edinburgh is one of the world’s few cities where a medieval Old Town and an Enlightenment-era New Town coexist side by side.
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The story of how a post-war arts festival transformed Edinburgh into the world’s festival capital.
The Dunard Centre is Edinburgh’s new purpose-built concert hall at St Andrew Square.