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Edinburgh

A photograph of Edinburgh
Photograph · 瑞丽江的河水 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Edinburgh keeps two cities beside each other: the medieval Old Town along its ridge and the Georgian New Town laid out below it through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, listed together by UNESCO. Crossing between them takes minutes and moves several centuries, and it is the main reason 5.3 million visits landed here in 2023, 2.4 million of those from overseas. The resident figure is far smaller than the visitor count implies, 506,520 in 2020, and every August, when the Fringe takes over the halls, the gap is felt in the queues. The Firth of Forth bounds the city to the north, the Pentland Hills to the south.

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Planning a visit

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Top things to see

Ranked by importance — sitelinks, pageviews and heritage status, not editor preference.

  16. 4042
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    4042

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    • Nightlife venue
  18. 56 North
    18 2 hours

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  21. 6 TIMES
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    • Art and culture venue
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    6 TIMES

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    • Art and culture venue

How the city is laid out

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Plan Edinburgh