Edinburgh is one of Europe's most
beautiful cities, draped across a series of rocky hills overlooking
the sea. It's a town intimately entwined with its landscape, with
buildings and monuments overshadowed by cliffs. From the Old Town's
picturesque jumble of medieval tenements piled high along the Royal
Mile, its turreted skyline strung between the black, bull-nosed
Castle Rock and the russet palisade of Salisbury Crags, to the New
Town's neat grid of neoclassical respectability, all columns and
capitals, porticoes and pediments, the city offers a constantly
changing perspective. And it's all small enough to explore easily on
foot.
