Perspective View of the Castle and City of Edinburgh

Category

Library Item

Item no

360

Title

Perspective view of the Castle and City of Edinburgh, with the towns of Leith, Burntislan [Burntisland] & Kinghorn

Description

General view from south-east showing Edinburgh Castle, Old Town, Canongate, St Giles, Kirk o' Field, Netherbow Port, Flodden Wall, Pleasance, Canongate Tolbooth, Holyroodhouse, Trinity College, Calton Hill, Leith, Burntisland, Kinghorn, ships, gardens, figures, horses

Engraver

[Anonymous]

Date

1650

Size

33 x 21 cm.

Type

Engraving

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

The city of Edinburgh is built around seven hills, mostly volcanic in origin. It is bordered to its north by the Firth of Forth, and to its south by the Pentland Hills. Edinburgh has been Scotland's capital since the mid fifteenth century, but evidence of human habitation on the site stretches back some 7000 years. The central city is made up of the Old Town area immediately surrounding the Castle and the Royal Mile, and the New Town to the north, an important example of eighteenth and nineteenth century neoclassical town planning. These central areas were designated an UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1995. Other more modern developments, from the nineteenth century to the present, radiate from this central area incorporating many older villages. Edinburgh attracts more tourists than any other city in the UK except London, especially during the annual festivals in August.

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