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View over Edinburgh from the Braid Hills
Tweedie, L., 1803, Watercolour
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View over Edinburgh from the Braid Hills
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View over Edinburgh from the Braid Hills
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View of Edinburgh Castle drawn from the Braid Hills. The Castle Rock can be clearly seen with the rest of the city stretching our beneath it.
Artist / maker
Tweedie, L.
Date
1803
Size
21.2 x 28.5 cm
Type
Watercolour
Location
Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
The Braid Hills lie south of Edinburgh, between Blackford Hill and the Pentlands. Today most of their area is taken up with golf courses.
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Braid Hills
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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