Canongate Kirk
153 Canongate, The Royal Mile, Edinburgh, EH8 8BN, United Kingdom
Adam Smith, the father of modern economics, is buried in a modest grave in this kirkyard, and for most of the twentieth century almost nobody noticed.
George Heriot's School
Lauriston Place, Portsburgh, Edinburgh, EH3 9EQ, United Kingdom
From the back windows of the Elephant House cafe, J.
Holyrood Abbey
Canongate, The Royal Mile, Edinburgh, EH8, United Kingdom
These roofless Gothic arches, open to the sky and the Edinburgh rain, are what remains of one of Scotland's most important medieval monasteries.
Royal Mile
The Royal Mile, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
This street isn't actually a mile long — it's a mile and 107 yards, which happens to be exactly one Scots mile, a measurement that hasn't been used since the eighteenth century.
St Giles' Cathedral
High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1RE
In 1637, a market trader named Jenny Geddes supposedly hurled a wooden stool at the minister's head when he tried to read from the new Anglican prayer book that Charles I was forcing on the Scottish Kirk.
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